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Partying with the Germs and drinking with X: A new book about Slash magazine captures L.A.'s early punk scene

3759 days ago
L.A. Times - Entertainment — It all began as an art project. It was the mid-1970s and Los Angeles was cheap and stuffed with artists.  Melanie Nissen was an amateur photographer managing a bookstore in Palos Verdes. Steve Samiof was working for a group of small newspape... more info

Partying with the Germs and drinking with X: A new book about Slash magazine captures L.A.'s early punk scene

3759 days ago
L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — It all began as an art project. It was the mid-1970s and Los Angeles was cheap and stuffed with artists.  Melanie Nissen was an amateur photographer managing a bookstore in Palos Verdes. Steve Samiof was working for a group of small newspape... more info

The Go-Go's Jane Wiedlin on the birth of LA punk: 'I wrote lyrics at work on crystal meth'

3815 days ago
Guardian Music — They stole food, drank all night, and formed bands that couldn’t play. The guitarist relives the clothes, clubs and drug-fuelled chaos she was lucky to surviveIn late 1976, a few months into college, I was reading the fashion newspaper Womenâ... more info

Alice Bag – “No Means No”

3850 days ago
Stereogum — Alice Bag is a Latina punk rock pioneer and a product of the same scene that gave us Black Flag and the Germs. She founded the early LA punk band the Bags and was featured in the seminal documentary The Decline Of Western Civilization. More recently,... more info

Study Says Dyson Hand Dryers Spread More Germs

3856 days ago
Chorus.fm — Beth Mole, writing for Ars Technica, on how Dyson hand dryers spread viruses in bathrooms: Researchers have long known that warm air hand dryers can launch bacteria into the air—compared to dabbing with paper towels, which unleashes virtually none.... more info

How About Some Primitive Germs from The Arch Menaces?

3937 days ago
Powerpopulist — Yeah, the postitle sounds kind of scary, but go change your armor, all will be well. Very, very well indeed. We dropped this Adelaide band (Songdropped) a week or so ago and went on to buy some at eMusic. Grooving mightily to "The Masters" awhile ag... more info

Nashville punks Jawws releasing 'Dead World' on Infinity Cat (stream it)

4005 days ago
Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Jawws have been kicking around Nashville for a couple of years now, making raw, vicious punk that sounds like they may have copies of the first Adolescents and Germs records lying around. They toured earlier this year... more info

The Truth About Hand Sanitizers & Flu Germs

4325 days ago
L.A. Times - News — more info

Ex Cops – “Tragically Alright” (Feat. Ariel Pink)

4447 days ago
Stereogum — The two members of the hazy Brooklyn-based narco-pop duo Ex Cops are connected. Billy Corgan executive produced their new album Daggers, and Sky Ferreira collaborator Justin Raisen produced it. Ariel Pink co-wrote the song “Tragically Alright,” w... more info

Nudes and Kurraka released stuff, touring together and separately (dates & streams)

4510 days ago
Brooklyn Vegan — by Ian Chainey Stain cover art Seattle punks Nudes recently released the 7" Stain on Iron Lung Records. Uncompromising and uncomfortable, the three tracks speed along like the Germs while taking breaks for feedback-lashed, buzzy bass lurches that lay... more info

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