The Last Punk Explosion Was 50 Years Ago. The Next One Is Being Priced Out
Fifty years after punk's 1976 explosion, political music is alive but priced out. Kneecap, Craic Killers, and the fight for rehearsal rooms, venues, and survival.Chaos Theory: Ruby Blue Reviews - Die Tonight.
Die Tonight Live Review: Chaos, Sex Appeal & Debut Headline Show
Die Tonight brought pure chaos to Liverpool's Kazimier Stockroom.
Ruby Blue reviews the debut headline show, from mokk.me's support
set to stage dives and strip club anthems.Jared Leto: Demanding the messiah, delivering the predator.
This is not about Jared Leto: The Statute of Profitability and Industry Immunity, The industry is a factory of manufactured amnesia. This isn't a revelation; it is a late invoice for a debt the public has been trying to collect for twenty years. From the tour bus coffin to the neocolonial enclosure of Mars Island, we dissect the machine that polishes the idols before it breaks them.
Read MoreThe Karma of It All: Boy George, "We Will Dance Again," and the Politics of Selective Memory
Boy George released We Will Dance Again — a pro-Israel reggae track written with AI and posted exclusively to social media. This is a line-by-line examination of the song's claims, set against the documented record: 73,000 dead, ICC arrest warrants, a UN genocide finding, and a string of artists who faced terrorism charges, visa revocations and criminal prosecution for saying what he dismisses as propaganda.
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