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Iggy Pop fronts the Stooges at Brussels Summer Festival, 2012. Photo by Eddy Berthier.

Total Chaos

In Total Chaos: The Story of The Stooges as Told by Iggy Pop, the punk icon reveals the almost unbelievable tale of the band he founded By Harvey Kubernik Third Man Books has just published a gorgeous coffee table volume on one...
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Punk
Velvet Underground

Re-loaded

The 45th Anniversary Edition of The Velvet Underground’s Loaded By Richie Unterberger Recorded after leaving their original label (MGM) for Atlantic, Loaded was the Velvet Underground’s most determined—indeed, only—stab...
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Portland Punk

The City of Roses’ first wave of punk is chronicled in Mark Sten’s All Ages: The Rise and Fall of Portland Punk Rock, 1977-1981 When punk rock appeared in the late 1970’s it was as if someone suddenly threw down the gaunt...
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Foxes on the Run

From The Bystander Effect to Stockholm Syndrome: Sexual and psychological abuse in Rock and Roll cast a 40-year shadow By Suzanne Rush On New Year’s Eve in 1975, Jackie Fuchs (a.k.a. Jackie Fox), just 16-years-old and a membe...
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Alt-Rock
Los Lobos

Los Lobos

Chris Morris Writes the Book on a Great American Band By Michael Sigman On May 4, 1980, Los Angeles Reader music critic Chris Morris went to see punk heroes PiL (John Lydon’s post-Sex Pistols lineup) at the suitably seedy Oly...
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Pleistocene Moon

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The Review 3.5 / 5 - Good
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Don't Quit Your Day Job

Mutiny Mutiny

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The Review 4.5 / 5 - Excellent
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The Runaways

The First Queens of Rock

AUTHOR EVELYN McDONNELL SORTS THE MUSIC FROM THE MYTHS TO TELL THE “REAL STORY OF THE RUNAWAYS” By Suzanne Rush The band that spawned one of rock’s most durable female icons was born in a suburban rec room in grea...
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Afflicted Man Punk Rock

The Afflicted Man

The Steve Hall Story by Lance Baresi  don’t recall how I first learned of Afflicted Man, but I do know that the instant I heard the music, I was infatuated. I immediately tracked down all the Afflicted Man records and procee...
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