Here’s an idea for your Saturday: stop by the Metropolitan Museum for PUNK: From Chaos to Couture, to take in how the punks from around 1977 dressed, then go see a band that can trace its lineage back to those fashionable nihilists that hung out on The Bowery and Kings Road. … Read More
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What’s On at Flavorwire: The Day’s Best Links
Everything Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto do together is adorable, as thiscar commercial confirms — Old Spock and New Spock in the same room will never get old. Speaking of cars, you can buy the Batman “Tumbler” for a cool $1.6 million. But perhaps you prefer more literary movies? If so,… Read More
Celebrities’ Punk Rock Selfies From Last Night’s Met Gala
Selfies aren’t just for the layfolk. Even celebrities take them now and again, and last night’s extravagant, punk-themed Met Gala — corresponding with the museum’s latest Costume Institute exhibit, Punk: Chaos to Couture — was an opportune time for the glitterati to take to social media with pictures of their dresses, hairdos, nails, and other accessories (including friends and other fabulous people). We scoured Instagram and Twitter to bring you the best of last night’s selfies. Take a peek through the images below, including a sufficiently punked-up Madonna sporting tartan and rocking a black bob, a very pink Debbie Harry, Katy Perry’s bling-tastic nails, and Zooey Deschanel’s pretty (if questionably punk) hairdo. Oh and, erm, Alicia Keys in a bathrobe. … Read More
‘Chaos to Couture’: Preview the Met’s Punk Fashion Exhibition
Punk has always been inextricably (sometimes physically) bound up with fashion, art, and the ordered disorder of each. Enter PUNK: Chaos to Couture, a big, gorgeous book published in conjunction with a show of the same name at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that’s filled with photographs and essays that consider the punk aesthetic as it was interpreted by high fashion. The exhibit runs from May 9 through August 14 and is sure to be an absolute knockout; preview some of its most striking images below. … Read More
A Selection of Fascinating Musical Manifestos, 1910-Present
A couple of years back, the Guardian published an article called “The Lost Art of the Pop Manifesto,” bemoaning, well, the lost art of the pop manifesto. The article harked back to the golden age of punk, when bands published manifestos as often as they made records, and lamented that bands these days just don’t seem to do the same thing. We’re not so sure, though — so in honor of The Knife’s recently published manifesto, which did the rounds earlier this week, here’s a look at some of our favorite manifestos past and present, from pre-WWI futurism to post-millenial hippie utopianism, from stuckism to an erudite tract on black metal. … Read More
The Baddest Girl Gangs on Film
This summer’s cinema slate is all about teen girls gone wild, with Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers and Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring bringing the crime spree to theaters. Last week week, we listened to the Skrillex soundtrack for Korine’s neon bacchanal and looked at some awesome fan-made posters for the film. The trailer for Coppola’s Bling Ring also appeared online, and got us excited for celebrity-obsessed teens that rob from the rich. Girl groups that willfully break boundaries are rare in cinema, and we wanted to spotlight more of these troublemakers. These brazen all-girl gangs proved men don’t necessarily have the upper hand when it comes to kicking ass and taking… Read More
Librarian and ‘Riot Grrrl Collection’ Editor Lisa Darms on Why We Still Love Riot Grrrl
This week, we were psyched to hear the news that selections from the famed Riot Grrrl Collection, part of the Fales Collection at NYU’s Bobst Library, will be published in a book later this year. The book, which was edited by senior archivist Lisa Darms, who launched the Riot Grrrl Collection several years ago (and who lived in Olympia throughout the ’90s), will feature some 350-odd printed artifacts, including fliers, posters, and zines, some of which — like Girl Germs 3, Johanna Fateman’s Artaud-Mania, and Kathleen Hanna’s My life with Evan Dando: Popstar — are even reprinted in full for your complete consumption. … Read More
Eccentric Photos Capturing the Many Faces of Nina Hagen in the 1980s
During the height of her glorious punk/post-punk weirdness, Nina Hagen visited the New York City studio of Gilles Larrain, who we discovered on Behance, for a series of improvised photo shoots. With newborn daughter Cosma Shiva in tow, the German singer and actress revealed her many faces — mannered, flamboyant poses and ensembles that prove why she’s a beloved and eccentric style icon. See the “mother of punk” take over Larrain’s SoHo studio in our gallery. … Read More
Iconic New York Punk Portraits from the 1970s
No Wave icon Anya Phillips (girlfriend of singer James Chance) was one of the founders of legendary New York nightspot the Mudd Club. Burroughs, Debbie Harry, Nico, Lydia Lunch, and other downtown figures populated the nightclub that hosted bands like Talking Heads, DNA, Chance’s The Contortions, and The B-52′s.
Photographer William Coupon started his career in New York City, documenting the Mudd Club’s thriving counterculture scene throughout the late 1970s. Coupon would later go on to photograph George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, but we’re more than happy to stare at a young Klaus Nomi, photographed like a classic Renaissance painting. See more of Coupon’s portraits in our gallery, which we spotted in his Behance portfolio. … Read More
A Collection of Vintage Punk Magazine Covers [NSFW]
Collecting stacks and stacks of strange, raunchy, violent and culturally relevant magazines from the ’50s to the ’80s, Tom Brinkmann has amassed one spectacular treasure trove. Published as Bad Mags, one particular slice of his incredible collection, spotted by Dangerous Minds, is relevant to our interests. Ah, punksploitation. From the music mags and tabloids that tapped the pulse of the late ’70s punk scene like Punk and The New York Rocker to the sleazy nudie rags that cashed in on the punk subculture as a fetish, they run quite the gamut. The old covers with Blondie, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, and Johnny Rotten are as fascinating as those of fetishistic, stylized (albeit, questionable in their authenticity) pin-ups, so here’s a mixed stack for you to peruse. Check out Bad Mags for plenty more! … Read More
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