by Dan Metz | Aug 19, 2019 | Culture, Featured, LA, Movies, Music
Blixa Bargeld and FM Einheit of German band Einstürzende Neubauten, performing at an event in the Mojave Desert. Photo credit: Fredrik NIlsen (1984) The story of punk rock in the US reads a bit like the story of jazz: a time of musical experimentation where even...
by Downtown Magazine | Nov 4, 2016 | Culture, Music
Vanishing Life is a new band, but its members are hardly new to music or to playing out in New York City. Walter Schreifels has been involved with a lot of influential New York City bands over the past 30-something years, including Rival Schools, Quicksand, Gorilla...
by Downtown Magazine | Sep 14, 2016 | Culture, Music
In advance of the band’s upcoming 12th studio album, Revolution Radio, Green Day is hitting the road for a rare club tour. On Oct. 8, Green Day will headline Webster Hall. Prior to that, the legendary group hits close to Manhattan with a gig in Sayreville, New...
by Downtown Magazine | Aug 16, 2016 | Book Club, Culture, Music
As authors of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History Of Punk, Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil influenced a lot of people on several levels. Now regarded as the best-selling book on punk rock of all time, Please Kill Me first and foremost described what the heyday...
