CONCERT REVIEW: Adam Ant (Turner Hall Ballroom, Milwaukee)

80s icon Adam Ant brings an updated, harder-edged sound to the Turner Hall stage, but it turns out to mostly be a case of fixing something that wasn't broken.

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CONCERT REVIEW: Bow Wow Wow & Men Without Hats (Shank Hall, Milwaukee)

There's no denying that Bow Wow Wow's moment has long since passed, but Annabella Lwin and company aren't about to start acting like it.

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UPDATE: "Punk Reverance: Jubilee" on WFMU's Beware of the Blog

If you missed it the first time around, my article "Punk Reverance: Jubilee", originally penned for Network Awesome, found it's way onto WFMU's Beware of the Blog. It's one of my favorite sites, consistently funny, surprising and jam-packed with killer tunes, so be sure to do a bit of exploring afterwards.

Read the full piece here.

FEATURE: Punk Reverance: Jubilee

When Bright Lights Film Journal calls Derek Jarman's Jubilee "Britain's only decent punk film", it kind of comes off as faint praise, since, truth be told, there really aren't that many UK films from the era capable of giving it much competition, which is kind of surprising, given punk's vivid visual style and rhetoric about the mass media. Still, if pointing out that it's better than The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle doesn't ultimately mean much, the film succeeds based on nothing more than its own merit, forging a caustic, dizzying fantasia out of punk's past, present and future.

Read the full piece here.