If the last punk album you bought was by Bad Brains, then maybe it’s time to break out the Docs and get thee to “The Next Big Thing,” a Sunday night showcase of more than 20 local punk and alternative bands at the 9:30 Club.
The glory days of DC punk may be long gone, but who knows what great new band is coming to life in some rat-infested group house? So go, cheer on the young descendants of Minor Threat. All ages!
After you’re done at the 9:30, use this handy guide or these video guides to visit all the ghosts of DC’s hardcore past.
Sunday, Feb. 15; doors open at 11AM, $15 [9:30 Club]
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Is that a picture of Barry and Blago’s bastard child?
The glory days of DC punk may be long gone…
Sorry, punk is dead. Still, that’s a thought-provoking graphic of Barry as a punker. Who knows what the world would be like if he’d chosen music instead of politics.
That picture is just… so… wrong…
[re=243006]BillyClubb[/re]: thought-provoking graphic of Barry as a punker.
I thought that was an Emo Obama… To be a punk, he’d need a BarackHawk.
Bad Brains the last punk record bought? Try the second punk act ever seen? ’81, Max’s Kansas City, the last night Max’s was ever in existence, my first and only night ever there. That was kinda the story of my relationship with punk. I was always getting my toe in the door at the tail end of one wave and the very beginning of the next.
Dudes, that picture has been my avatar for like a year now. It came from here:
http://www.democraticstuff.com/Emo-for-Obama-Photo-Button-p/bt23690.htm
For me punk died when I went to see the Descendants and they were all wearing paisley shirts and complaining about the sound system.
It wasn’t Bad Brains, it was the Descendents, that hip new band from the Golden State.
I swear that Gorillionaire and I were not coordinating our comments.
P.S. Are you sure they weren’t kidnapped by Material Issue?
[re=243032]Keram2[/re]: I always wondered what your avatar was. Now I get it. That is quite punk. also.
But yep. Punk music is garbage these days. It’s all so contrived now. If you have to TRY to be punk then you are definitely not punk.
For me punk was officially dead and buried when the Sex Pistols did a fucking Mountain Dew commercial around 1997. I saw their reunion concert in Seattle and the really loyal fans were throwing cans of that crap soda on stage and demanding that they play “Route 66″ (the song from the commercial.)
Fuck Johnny Rotten. What a sellout.
“Punk rock died when the first kid said ‘Punk’s not dead, punk’s not dead”
-Silver Jews [who are ironically now dead]
[re=243055]Kev-O-Tron[/re]: Fuck you for caring if they sell out. Make your own goddamn music.
Rock became the first music since jazz to be ruined by the people who wrote about it. The lifestyle excesses of the musicians were nothing compared to those of the prose — yuck.
Wait, I saw the Silver Jews four months ago. Dave Berman looked like the living dead, but he’s not quite dead yet.
[re=243071]Thegreatbacon[/re]: I do. It’s shitty. Fuck you, also.
[re=243078]Kev-O-Tron[/re]: Johnny Rotten was never a punk. He was a pissed off kid who made snotty music, who then became a middle aged man who didn’t want to work at McDonald’s and cashed in his notoriety. Don’t paw him with your dirty fucking idol worship.
[re=243098]Thegreatbacon[/re]: My idol worship I mean your hatred, too. It all the same heightening of his supposed importance.
“By Idol worship…” Sorry.
Also, sorry I went on a little rant there. Also.
[re=243098]Thegreatbacon[/re]: Jesus settle the fuck down. Who said anything about idol worship? I grew up in Seattle listening to all kinds of music. I’m not going to name drop but I know plenty of musicians big and small I and realize they’re just people too. Yeah, some of them “cash in their notoriety” and I reserve the right to think that’s kind of sad. You’re being a dick and reading way too much into a comment left on a satire blog. I usually think you’re funny but today just prickish.
One word:
http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr295/frailamerica/swiz.jpg
[re=243098]Thegreatbacon[/re]: Jesus man! Are you having a stroke or something? Holy hell! Calm the fuck down you fucking cretin!
Umm… Punks never bought albums. I’m convinced that the punk crowd of my youth got all of our music from copying tapes from copied tapes that all originated from some guy named “Skraggs” that lived in Tulsa.
[re=243109]Kev-O-Tron[/re]: Yeah, I know. Sorry about that. It’s just that I grew up during all the “sell out” hysteria of the early nineties, when an edgy person defined himself by how obscure his tastes were, and how much he hated mainstream music. I’ve spent too many hours hearing people ramble on about when such-and-such band was cool, before they sold out, that now I kind of snap whenever anybody claims someone sold out. We all sell out in our own ways (except Tom Waits, but he’s not mortal). So again, sorry, and I hope we can still be cool.
[re=243109]Kev-O-Tron[/re]: Hahaha. A punk fight on Wonkette. That’s priceless.
Seriously though, check out Fucked Up’s The Chemistry of Common Life. Their live shows are pretty meh, but their music sounds like the next stage of punk. It’s fantastic. And for my money Pissed Jeans is one of the best bands — punk or otherwise — in recent memory. They recently played at the Market Hotel and totally trashed the place. It was great.
[re=243131]Thegreatbacon[/re]: It’s cool. I hear you on the sell out “hysteria”. And believe me, I live in a city where people totally define their level of hip by how obscure there tastes are and I find it pathetic. Personally, I’m not a big fan of most mainstreams stuff but simply because I think it’s shitty. I’m certainly not a class warrior or anything.
I was talking about mainstream vs. (for lack of a better term) underground and frankly I like the fact that Top 40 exists because it means fewer people go to the shows I go to.
Since we’re talking music here I’ll state that my some of my new favorites are The Cave Singers, The Builders and the Butchers and Cocorosie.
[re=243141]Keram2[/re]: I know! Who saw this coming. I liked your old avatar better. SELL OUT!!!1!
[re=243147]Kev-O-Tron[/re]: I meant talking about mainstream vs. regular people music at a bar recently, BTW.
I’m still weeping over the death of Lux Interior. The rest of this “authentic punk” flame war just…doesn’t matter.
[re=243148]Kev-O-Tron[/re]: Also, I agree with you that some bands can sell out, but the band has to have a message in the first place, like Fugazzi or Minor Threat. If Fugazzi did a commercial for Wal-Mart, or Minor Threat did a commercial for Olde English 40s, then yeah — they’d be selling out. Besides, everyone should be growing beards and doing hiphop.
I keep thinking punk is dead, but then I realize it’s just the body I left in my footlocker. Also.
Well, let’s all spare a moment of stunned astonishment that Lux made it to 60.
[re=243228]norbizness[/re]: Lux will make a delightful zombie in the coming zombie revolution.
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