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11 hrs ago | The Austin American-Statesman

Weekend picks

Robert Cray at Antone's . Cray was amazingly popular in the 1980s, one of the few bluesmen, along with Stevie Ray Vaughan and George Thorogood, who was able to get radio airplay across formats .

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Related Topix: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Blues, Punk, Music, Entertainment

Fri Jul 03, 2009

MusicEmissions

Lighten Up - Absolutely Not

Last Saturday I crowded with a hundred or so of the most tattooed, pierced, unwashed people I'd ever seen in the basement of a seedy punk house in West Philadelphia known as the Shore House.

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Related Topix: Philadelphia, PA, Punk

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Metromix Jersey Shore

Spreading the disease

As Jersey laments the passing of a sopped and sunless June, we set our hopes high for the coming of Independence Day weekend, when the fire in the sky can't compare to what sears on the stage.

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Related Topix: The Lodger, Horror Movies, Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Life, 4th of July, Holidays, Asbury Park, NJ, Punk, Bums, What We Do Is Secret, Music, Entertainment

Tue Jun 30, 2009

San Diego CityBEAT

Saxon, not Jackson

Sometimes more than one famous person dies on the same day. If you're the less famous one, your tragic-death hype will be overshadowed by the tragic-death hype of the more famous person.

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Related Topix: Punk, Pop/Rock, John Lennon, Lexicon, House, The Seeds

Sun Jun 28, 2009

The Village Voice

Recreated, not Sedated

You've only got one option here: Accept it as passion, or deride it as impression.

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Related Topix: Punk, What We Do Is Secret, Suicide

Fri Jun 26, 2009

Toledo Blade

Punk band The Germs at Frankie's

A sure sign you're getting old: Punk bands from the '70s are doing reunion tours.

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Related Topix: Punk, Suicide, Pop/Rock, Foo Fighters

Wed Jun 24, 2009

Time Out Chicago

Five things to do today: June 23

Summer has finally come around and gee looks like we skipped the pleasantly warm to head straight into the blazing hotness.

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Related Topix: Punk, Gay/Lesbian, Tulpan

Mon Jun 22, 2009

Decider+Chicago

Daily Agenda: June 23

West played Crash in The Germs' biopic What We Do Is Secret , and will be center stage with the punk legends at Reggie's Rock Club tonight.

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Related Topix: What We Do Is Secret, Punk, Shane West

Salt Lake City Weekly

10. Smokey Robinson, Baby Ranks, The Germs, Conor Oberst, Black Skies & A.A. Bondy

Friday 6.19 SMOKEY ROBINSON Smokey Robinson recently appeared on Elvis Costello's Sundance Channel talk show The Spectacle, sounding and looking like he'd spent the past few decades in a vacuum, his voice nearly flawless after all these years.

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Related Topix: Punk, What We Do Is Secret, ER, Soap Opera, Entertainment, Drama, Television

Sat Jun 20, 2009

Salt Lake City Weekly

Weekend-A-Go-Go

In Section: Music Blog >> Posted By: Jamie Gadette Kick off the first official summer weekend with SLC's downtown gallery stroll.

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Related Topix: Punk, Downtown (Los Angeles, CA)

Thu Jun 18, 2009

Brooklynvegan

the Strange Boys, Mika Miko @ Market Hotel, Brooklyn - pics

DOWNLOAD: The Strange Boys - Heard You Wanna Beat Me Up Strange Boys... The Saturday, June 13th show at the Market Hotel seemed to be running pretty closely on schedule.

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Related Topix: Punk, San Jose, CA, San Francisco, CA, San Diego, CA

Wed Jun 17, 2009

Seattle Weekly

Live Music Roundup: Wednesday, June 17

Seminal, reunited punk band the Germs play Neumos tonight with Poison Idea, Krum Bums and the Bloodclots .

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Related Topix: Punk, Poison Idea, Bums, Pop/Rock, The Tragically Hip

Sat May 09, 2009

LiveDaily

The Germs continue comeback with summer outing

The band, featuring actor Shane West fronting the remaining members of the group's best-known lineup--guitarist Pat Smear, bassist Lorna Doom and drummer Don Bolles--will kick off the outing June 12 in Sacramento, CA.

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Related Topix: Punk, What We Do Is Secret, Shane West, Sacramento Metro, Sacramento, CA

Tue Apr 07, 2009

Punk Turns 30

Oi!!! 999 and Considering 30+ Years of Hardcore

As the garage/trash rock part of punk rock began to gain a foothold among mainstream music fans, hardcore started poking its head out and beyond its subcult audience... in Los Angeles, the South Bay was nurturing this movement, as was Orange County, with LA's own Germs laying the foundation for that movement at the dawn of the LA punk era... Over ...

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Related Topix: Punk

Wed Mar 18, 2009

About.com

Better Watch Out - That Boy George Biopic Could Already Be in Development

As if we needed additional examples at this point, here's another piece of irrefutable proof that our years are advancing wildly and unstoppably: the slow but certain emergence of '80s music biopics.

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Related Topix: Punk, Pop/Rock, Joy Division, The Runaways

Fri Mar 06, 2009

The Gazette

Hero worship

On Tuesday I became a sputtering fan boy as I got to interview one of my musical heroes, Greg Ginn, for next Thursday's Live in the Clubs story.

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Related Topix: Punk, Black Flag, Damaged, Death-Metal, Taylor, TX

Thu Feb 26, 2009

Punk Turns 30

Punk + Elks Lodge Doesn't Always ="Riot"

Darby Crash / The Germs A full year before the notorious and legendary Elks Lodge Riot, there were indeed completely successful punk rock gigs held at downtown LA's Elk Lodge -- and by successful, I mean no ...

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Related Topix: Punk, The Dickies

Tue Feb 10, 2009

SF Weekly

Get "Fat," build your empire: Michael Burkett's punk legacy

Despite going by the nickname Fat Mike for most of his adult life, Michael Burkett's most prominent trait isn't the fact that he's overweight.

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Related Topix: Punk, Nofx, San Francisco, CA, Fat Wreck Chords, US Politics, US News, Music, Entertainment

Sat Jan 24, 2009

BlabberMouth.net

Misfits/Black Sabbath Book Author Explores Satanism In Latest Offering

Author and veteran punk drummer Joel Gausten has published his latest offering, "Words From The Third Side: Essays on Sex, Satan & Success" . An autobiographical tale, "Words" chronicles Gausten 's experiences ...

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Related Topix: Hard-Rock, Black Sabbath, Punk, The Misfits, The Undead, Electric Frankenstein

Thu Jan 22, 2009

Northwest Herald

Actors go to great lengths to embody musicians in biopics

There's method acting, and then there's what Brooklyn-born rapper Jamal Woolard endured to become Biggie Smalls for “Notorious,” the recently released biopic detailing the life of Christopher ...

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Related Topix: Notorious, Marlon Brando, The Doors, Pop/Rock, Short, Music!, Documentary Movies, Drama, Biography Movies, What's Love Got to Do with It?, What We Do Is Secret, Punk

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