#New York Punk

[spockeye-fierce]

See no evil... Television - Billy Ficca, Richard Lloyd, Tom Verlaine and Fred Smith, June 1976 - Photo by Roberta Bayley

#punk #punks #punkrock #protopunk #televisionband #newyorkpunk

[bitter69uk]

“New York glitter-punk outfit The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black began life as a near-death experience. Shortly before forming the band in 1990, front woman Kembra Pfahler was strangled in a brutal mugging and almost died. While recovering, battered and zonked on painkillers, she watched the 1975 horror movie Trilogy of Terror on television. The film stars Karen Black, the quirky cross-eyed actress whose wildly erratic career encompasses everything from some of the key American films of the 1970s (Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Nashville, Day of the Locust) to mainstream Hollywood schmaltz (Airport 1975) to obscure straight-to-VHS exploitation / horror dreck. In Trilogy's best-known segment, Black is stalked by and eventually possessed by a cursed malevolent Zuni fetish doll which has come to life. [SPOILER ALERT] It concludes with a final jolting image of the now-crazed and murderous, knife-wielding Black grinning blank-eyed and maniacal to the camera to reveal a mouthful of razor-sharp teeth identical to the Zuni doll’s … In her traumatized state, that savage and disturbing image -- combined with almost dying -- made a powerful impression on Pfahler. Inspired, she would blacken out her teeth, conceal her natural fine-featured beauty under cadaverous make-up and take to the stage clad in little more than a pair of thigh boots and a coat of body paint. Pfahler’s look can suggest a character from a John Waters film given an “ugly make-over”: think of Divine as the acid-scarred Dawn Davenport in Female Trouble (1974), an image which seems to anticipate TVHKB’s twisted glamour. Like Divine before her, Pfahler shaves off her eyebrows and shaves back her hairline to accommodate her extreme eye make-up. “I want to be both very beautiful and very repulsive,” Pfahler would explain to The Toronto Star in 1994.”

/ From my own blog post “The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black at Meltdown Festival 10 August 2012” /

Born on this day 62 years ago (4 August 1961): California girl-turned-NYC provocative performance artist, Cinema of Transgression actress and Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black voodoo-dolly singer Kembra Pfahler. Photo of Pfahler by me!

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE POST-GLAM ERA WAS IN -- PUNK WAS NEXT.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on live and behind-the-scenes shots of the first line-up of New York City punk rock band, THE HEARTBREAKERS, NYC, USA, c. 1975. TV & the dolls were out, heartbreak was in, kids. 📸: @barning.

Source: www.picuki.com/media/3439880136696327794.

[nugothrhythms]

Music video to "Sing Me to the Street" by Brooklyn, New York-based deathrock and cowpunk band Bambara off of 2020 album Stray

Warning for some flashing imagery throughout

[mackmp3]

my ink drawing / painting of Patti Smith (for my high school painting folio)

yeah i did trace it but it was my first time using ink as a medium (very different from using black watercolour as i have discovered) and I'm really happy with the way it turned out

the rose in the necklace is my thematic link cos my theme is pre-raphaelite & 70s new york punk

[sabinastent]

Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, New York, December 11, 1980.

Photo by Allan Tannenbaum.

[tragicallybroken]

Klaus Nomi, Christopher Parker & Jim Jarmusch outside CBGB, Bowery, 1978.

Jarmusch was still in film school, Parker was starring in his first film & Nomi just appeared out of nowhere.

Photo by godlis

[sirchubbybunny]

Everybody should go listen to The Car Bomb Parade right the fuck now. These guys were at Camp Punksylvania and they were awesome. The front guy, Ren, was climbing the stage barrier to get into the pit, giving hugs, and passed the mic to this kid who was two stepping and he'd give his best screams. Fuckin awesome. These dudes slap and their merch is pure gold. I spoke to Ren earlier in the day and when he mentioned the idea, I loved it right away.

Anyway, of all the bands I was curious about, these were up there and I'm so glad I raced down to the main stage. When I saw him at the merch table, I asked if he could sign my vendor pass and he was cool about it. Their guitarist was there too, but he was in a hurry (as was I), so we didn't get to talk sadly.

The Car Bomb Parade - Car Bomb Attack/Generation Fucked / Car Bomb Parade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA6GdKXSAfo

Trash Life / Car Bomb Parade - Topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bON9MaaAdg

The Car Bomb Parade - Burn 1/21/23 / Car Bomb Parade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQY-eoa9qd0

(And yes, I absolutely got all their stickers and Eat Trash shirt)

[someacidwords]

Kickin’ it out, lookin’ tough

[lanevemusic]

My band Downtown Boys on tour starting this week. Kickoff show in Brooklyn then across Europe! All tickets up here.

[venusfromoccupiedeurope]

RIP Tom Verlaine. You’ll always be my favorite guitarist.

[hatecomeseasy]

Hank Wood and the Hammerheads - The Ghost

[twinkandwink]

The last time I saw a gig at The Crown was probably 1989 when the cellar was called Le Cav and the likes of The Fieldmice, Jane Pow, Mega City 4, Thrilled Skinny played there... remember them? It's open again and it's not changed much apart from a lick of paint and the addition of a stage, well kindof a stage.

Brooklyn's Cumgirl8 came to Bristol, provocative and punky and as they put it they're a "sex-positve alien amoeba entity" They were fun.

Pics and Tracks: Take Me Home Again

Cumgirl8 - The Crown, Bristol 3rd Dec 2022

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"I WAS SO BENT ON MAKING US THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD..."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the late, great Johnny Ramone and the original RAMONES, playing live at CBGB, New York, c. 1976. 📸: Roberta Bayley.

"I was so bent on making us the best band in the world, I was willing to do anything without compromising us."

-- JOHNNY RAMONE (1948-2004), another legend lost

Source: https://www.johnnyramone.com/new-gallery-80.

[dinosaursr66]

Sonic Youth is close to being my favorite band name. Not sure why. It just is. Love this tune too.

SONG OF THE DAY - April 4, 2023