Virtually Invisible Last week the New York Times Magazine published photographs by Pieter Hugo of foragers in Agbogbloshie, a slum in Accra, the capital of Ghana. Here human beings hunt for sellable computer components in a smoking wasteland of toxic waste and ash. The computers they’re picking through were sent as parts of foreign aid […]
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Though we got a lot of submissions this week, I dug into some older submissions before they slipped to the dark depths of my email Inbox. This week we have a handful of photos from Stephanie Kiewiet, from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Stephanie sez: “Note: Culo is from West Chicago, Positive Noise is from Michigan. Those […]
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One of the less-cited-in-lazy-reviews (never in MRR, natch!) ’77 lady singers, Pauline Murray of PENETRATION handles herself here with graceful aplomb, despite the infernal rain of what we can clearly assume to be Newkie Brown being hurled at her by the amoeba-brained goofs in the crowd from this video shot in Manchester.
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The importance of the punk flyer surely can’t be overstated, but they’re getting increasing sidelined for internet-only gig spam, often to a would-be promoter‘s disappointment. So is it really worth the effort? Regular faces at the gigs that I put on are routinely shocked at where all these ‘new’ people have come from, and I […]
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This week Ross Adams checks in from the home of power pop heavyweights 20/20, Dwight Twilley and Phil Seymour…OKLAHOMA! The scene has changed a bit since those guys struck out for LA in the mid-70s. I know a lot of you saw (and shot) some killer shows this summer. Did you go on tour and […]
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