Category Archives: punk

Pussy Rioter’s Final Statement

August 10, 2012 – 10:14 am

Yekaterina Samutsevich: Closing Statement at the Pussy Riot Trial During the closing statement, the defendant is expected to repent or express regret for her deeds, or to enumerate attenuating circumstances. In my case, as in the case of my colleagues in the group, this is completely unnecessary. Instead, I want to express my views about […]

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Pussy Riot Freedom

August 9, 2012 – 12:15 pm

Show trial in the USSR were an integral instrument of Stalin’s oppressive regime and the practice has been revived in Vladimir Putin’s Russia to stifle any and all demonstrations against his rule. Last February three members of the punk group Pussy Riot entered Moscow’s Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Christ to perform PRAYER beseeching the Mother […]

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212-982-4052

July 21, 2012 – 10:09 am

Former guitarist for the Ghosts and present strummer for the Bowerytones Jahn Xavier posted a New York telephone number on Facebook. 212-982-4052. I can’t believe I remember that phone number, but there it is. Anybody out there know where that bell rang? Within two minutes a woman called Dusty recognized the number to CBGB’s telephone […]

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Damita of CBGBs

July 16, 2012 – 6:42 am

CBGBs was the la Scala of the East Village during the 1970s. Debby Harry was our Maria Callas, but not all the action was on stage. The lives of the musicians and regulars intertwined for minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years. None of pretended that we were family, but I regard my friends and […]

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CLOCKWORK ORANGE 50

May 15, 2012 – 5:33 pm

CLOCKWORK ORANGE turns 50 today. Anthony Burgess had written the book fast. He thought that he was going to die from a brain tumor. The author later described the novel thusly; “a jeu d’esprit knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify […]

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