post-punk

For fans obsessed with the quest for an essence rare that lay at the heart of what soon became known as "post-punk," the Feelies offered direct, body-rocking access.

NPR Topics: News 2011

Yup, you heard right: perhaps due to Dave Ghoul's (sp?) arena-rock band Food Fighters's (sp?) success at reviving '70s AOR hits like 'Baker Street' and 'Band On the Run' for the (likely) one-radio-station-per-city-market that plays Radiohead, Interpol, and Nine Inch Nails (say), Dick has decided to drag our post-punk musical culture backwards as well!

Portland Music Listener [Card #5: The Heirophant] (WORK-IN-PROGRESS) Christopher Snyder 2011

The influence of these mostly white post-punk groups comes through in the squalling, abrasive sound of the records he produced, which had little in common with the smooth funk backings preferred by the earliest rappers.

Ladies Love Cool Jams Tim Marchman 2011

Like a post-punk "Ocean's Eleven," Alex Cox's 1987 Spaghetti Western rounded up a motley crew of musician pals the Clash' Joe Strummer, the Pogues, Elvis Costello, Grace Jones and a teenaged Courtney Love, added what must have been considerable supplies of alcohol, and turned them loose in the arid desolation of the Spanish desert.

Roads Less Taken, Spirits Awakened Steve Dollar 2011

Officiating on launch night will be the resident DJs, playing obscure bands and genres du jour including post-punk, Italo disco, synth-pop, no wave, machine funk and art-rock.

This week's new clubs 2011

For the Chanel show at the Grand Palais on Monday, which Lagerfeld started planning months ago, he sent out a stream of dark, almost menacing post-punk gray suits and gowns down a runway surrounded by smoking black rocks and gravel.

Fashion designer crackups raise question: Is industry's pace too relentless? 2011

Some of the perpetrators over the past decade include Interpol (who vividly recall post-punk bands like Joy Division), Amy Winehouse ('60s pop-R&B, from Motown to Dusty Springfield), the Black Crowes (early-'70s Rolling Stones), and Oasis ("Revolver"-era Beatles).

When the Music Stopped Michael Azerrad 2011

Like a post-punk Werner Herzog, the documentary producer has visited many of the strangest outposts on the planet, hanging out in tranvestite mosques and exposing the secrets of psychotropic jungle toads.

Repertory Film: No-Holds-Barred Cinema Steve Dollar 2012

Mr. Reynolds, 48, uses as his gold standard the music of his youth (post-punk) and the music that clinched his professional reputation (rave); he presents few, if any, upsides to the digitalization of music and instead remembers fondly his visits to the local record shop.

When the Music Stopped Michael Azerrad 2011

Certainly, that's where the young band seem to be on the strength of their debut album New Brigade, a well-produced, claustrophobic and at times intimidating surge of post-punk energy, slightly gothy, but with impressive dynamics.

This week's new live music 2011