freaks and creaks

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Metal y Ca. "Datos" 1982 Spanish post-punk minimal synthpop Disbanded in 1984

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incredibly thankful and delighted with the klaus nomi official restorations

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Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (Shinichi Fukazawa, 1995)

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Kathy Acker Interviews the Spice Girls for Vogue in 1997

All Girls Together by Kathy Acker

The Spice Girls are the biggest, brashest girlie group ever to have hit the British mainstream. Kathy Acker is an avant-garde American writer and academic. They met up in New York to swap notes - on boys, girls, politics. And what they really, really want.

Fifty-second street. West Side, New York City. Hell’s Kitchen - one of those areas into which no one would once have walked unless loaded. Guns or drugs or both. But now it has been gentrified: the beautiful people have won. A man in middle-aged-rocker uniform, tight black jeans and nondescript T-shirt, lets Nigel, the photographer, and me through the studio doorway; then a chipmunk-sort-of-guy in shorts, with a Buddha tattooed on one of his arms, greets us warmly. This is Muff, the band’s publicity officer. We’re about to meet the Girls …

They are here to rehearse for an appearance on Saturday Night Live. Not only is this their first live TV performance, it’s also the first time they’ll be playing with what Mel C calls a ‘real band’. If the Girls are to have any longevity in the music industry, they will have to break into the American market; and for this they will need the American media. Both the Girls and their record company believe that their appearance here tonight might do the trick. There is a refusal among America’s music critics to take the Spice Girls seriously. The Rolling Stone review of Spice, their first album, refers to them as 'attractive young things … brought together by a manager with a marketing concept’. The main complaint, or explanation for disregard, is that they are a 'manufactured band’. What can this mean in a society of McDonald’s, Coca-Cola and En Vogue? However, an e-mail from a Spice fan mentions that, even though he loves the girls, he detects a 'couple of stereotypes surrounding women in the band’s general image. The brunette is the woman every man wants to date. Perfect for an adventure on a midnight train, or to hire as your mistress-secretary. The blonde is the woman you take home to mother, whereas the redhead is the wild woman, the woman-with-lots-of -evil-powers.’ So who are these Girls? And how political is their notorious 'Girl Power’? 

Keep reading

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Correction* This interview was originally published under the title: “All Girls Together” by Kathy Acker for The Guardian May 1997

Also, see link for Feb 2018 Guardian Review of Hayley Campbell’s BBC podcast exposé

'The world is infested with evil!' When Kathy Acker met the Spice Girls

A new BBC podcast asks: ‘Which mad genius sent Acker to interview the biggest girl group in the world?’ None other than the Guardian in May

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Muzak: the Concept of Manipulation through Music - Genesis P. Orridge Mondo 2000 - Issue 03 / 1991

https://archive.org/details/Mondo.2000.Issue.03.1991/page/n129

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The Sidekick grows up | 4 | CNNMoney.com

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The She-Butterfly (Đorđe Kadijević, 1973)

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Some of my favorite post punk memes I've collected over the past few years

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French visionary/ singer/ poet Lizzy Mercier Descloux captured by Michael Esteban in Patti Smith’s NY apartment back in 1975.

Though to some she may appear to have been nothing more than a footnote to the careers of icons like Patti Smith, Richard Hell & Chet Baker, that audacious artist and devotee of Rimbaud & Godard was an innovator who witnessed numerous pivotal moments in musical and cultural history upon her arrival in New York, at a time when the city was becoming a melting pot for various  late-’70s subcultures, such as American Punk and No Wave.

An archetypal outsider feeling suffocated in her working class family environment in France, she decided to drop out of Art School and follow her partner Michael Esteban to New York in the mid-’70s, witnessing the birth of punk and no wave with the Ramones, James Chance and Patti Smith. She always stood out from the crowd: she started a punk zine with her partner, who co-founded ZE Records, befriended Patti Smith who shared a mutual love for Rimbaud, became a muse for Richard Hell, released poetry books, appeared in Amos Poe’s documentary ‘Blank Generation’, made five albums in various no wave/ bouncing pre-Talking Heads post-disco/ Soweto jive/ loose jazz styles and marked herself out as a globe-trotter with more passport stamps than Tintin, living and travelling all around the world from the Bahamas & Rio De Janeiro to South Africa & Corsica, where she died in relative obscurity in 2004 from cancer.

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