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Meri St. Mary
Meri St. Mary is an American punk poet, singer, musician and artist. Career Meri St. Mary was part of the early punk music scene in Hollywood, California. She was involved in many projects, including a Ramones video and the punk film '' Suburbia'' as well as television shows (new wave theater) and movies. She also starred in ''Suicide Line'', an underground punk film on 8 mm film, featuring people from the punk scenes of San Francisco and Los Angeles. During the same period she was in two short-lived bands in Hollywood: "Toejam” with Maggie Ehrig, Christina Beck and Suava Smootha (playing KK Barrett's Radio, and introduced by Ice-T), and "Roadhog" with Nickey Beat, Smog Vomit, Rhys Williams (playing Cathay de Grande with Fear and The Minutemen. Known in early Hollywood as Meri (wagon) Housecoat, she was photographed by Bruce Kalhberg (and featured in ''NO'' magazine), as well as other photographers around the punk scene including Moshe Brakha, Gary Leonard, Eric Mueller, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punk Literature
Punk literature (also called punk lit and, rarely, punklit) is literature related to the punk subculture. The attitude and ideologies of punk rock gave rise to distinctive characteristics in the writing it manifested. It has influenced the transgressional fiction literary genre, the cyberpunk genre and their derivatives. Journalism The punk rock subculture has had its own underground press in the form of punk zines, which are punk-related print magazines produced independently and distributed on a small scale. Many regional punk scenes have had at least one punk zine, which features news, gossip, social commentary, music reviews and interviews with punk rock bands. Notable punk zines include ''Maximum RocknRoll'', ''Punk Planet'', ''Cometbus'', ''Girl Germs'', ''Kill Your Pet Puppy'', '' J.D.s'', ''Sniffin' Glue'', '' Absolutely Zippo'', ''Suburban Rebels'' and '' Punk Magazine''. Notable punk journalists and magazine contributors include Mykel Board, John Holmstrom, Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mutants (band)
The Mutants are an American band, notable in the history of San Francisco punk rock and new wave music. They are known for their theatrical performances which often include elaborate props, projections, and comical antics. They are credited with being one of the first "Art-punk" bands in San Francisco, and were one of the most popular bands of the San Francisco punk scene during the late 1970s and early 1980s. History The Mutants joined together to perform at the San Francisco Poetry Festival in 1977. They quickly became regular performers in the San Francisco punk rock scene, headlining at the Mabuhay Gardens (aka The Fab Mab), The Savoy Tivoli, The Berkeley Square, The Deaf Club, The Temple (aka 1839 Geary Street), The Old Waldorf, The Warfield, and other punk clubs. They were also noted for being one of the few pop bands to ever perform live at Napa State Hospital, a psychiatric hospital. They also opened for such bands as The Ramones, Iggy Pop, New Order, Lene Lovich, Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tragic Mulatto (band)
The tragic mulatto is a stereotypical fictional character that appeared in American literature during the 19th and 20th centuries, starting in 1837. The "tragic mulatto" is a stereotypical mixed-race person (a " mulatto"), who is assumed to be depressed, or even suicidal, because they fail to completely fit in the "white world" or the "black world". As such, the "tragic mulatto" is depicted as the victim of the society that is divided by race, where there is no place for one who is neither completely "black" nor "white". Tragic mulatta The female "tragic octoroon" was a stock character of abolitionist literature: a light-skinned woman, raised in her father's household as though she were white, until his bankruptcy or death has her reduced to a menial position and sold. She may even be unaware of her status before being so reduced.Kathy Davis.Headnote to Lydia Maria Child's 'The Quadroons' and 'Slavery's Pleasant Homes'. This character allowed abolitionists to draw attention ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sister Double Happiness
Sister Double Happiness was an alternative blues rock band that existed from 1986 until 1995, formed in San Francisco, CA, United States. Its core members were Gary Floyd and Lynn Perko, who were in the seminal punk rock band The Dicks, and Ben Cohen of the Pop-O-Pies. Sister Double Happiness recorded and released four LPs, one EP, and one live record in its nine-year existence. After they disbanded, Floyd went on to front Black Kali Ma and recorded solo material. Perko later joined Imperial Teen. Members '' Heart and Mind'' *Gary Floyd - vocals and harmonica. *Lynn Perko - drums, percussion, piano and organs. *Ben Cohen - guitar, mandolin, and 6 string bass. *Jeff Palmer - bass guitar ''Uncut'' and self-titled EP *Gary Floyd - vocals *Lynn Perko - drums *Ben Cohen - guitar *Danny Roman - guitar *Miles Montalbano - bass Discography Studio recordings *''Sister Double Happiness'' LP, SST, 1988 *'' Heart and Mind'' LP, Reprise, 1991 *''Hey Kids'' Maxi Single, Reprise, 1992 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Trash Debutantes
The White Trash Debutantes are an American punk rock band from San Francisco, California, United States, active since 1986. Origins White Trash Debutante deals with issues of gender equality and transcendence. The band's original line-up featured thirteen musicians, including lead vocalist Ginger Coyote, vocalists Ariana Uptime and Cindy Uptime, vocalist Roy Wonder, bassist Billy Gould, drummer Michael Crawford, guitarist Jay Crawford, trumpet player Terra Leong, harmonica player Jon Sugar, as well as Jennifer Blowdry, Dean Thomas. White Trash Debutante played its first show on August 30, 1986 at The Stone in San Francisco, opening for Devine. One critic wrote: "Punk rock has always had its socio-political agitators as well as bands that simply wanted to entertain; White Trash Debutantes are a perfect example of the latter." Perhaps the political underpinnings of White Trash Debutantes message are not so obvious. A careful listening to their music may betray a commitment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bambi Lake
Bambi Lake (October 20, 1950 – November 4, 2020) was an American transgender performer and musician. Early life She grew up in California in an Irish Catholic family and was the fourth born of eight children. Career In 1971, she joined The Angels of Light, which was an off-shoot of The Cockettes. After being in The Angels of Light she moved to Berlin and worked at Romy Haag's club Chez Romy Haag. During her years in Berlin, she went by the name Beverly Hills. In the mid-70s, she moved back to San Francisco. In 1977, she became involved with punk. She was friends with Tomata du Plenty David Xavier Harrigan, also Tomata du Plenty (May 28, 1948 – August 21, 2000), was an American singer of the late 1970s and early 1980s Los Angeles electropunk band The Screamers. He was also the founder of Seattle's counterculture troupe Ze Whi ... and Ginger Coyote and dated Baba Chenelle the drummer for The Zeros. In 1980, she joined the all-girl punk band VS. and with VS.she open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frightwig
Frightwig is an all-female punk rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1982 by Deanna Ashley and Mia Levin. After many line-up changes, Frightwig retired in 1994. Frightwig reformed in 2012 with Rebecca Sevrin and Rachel Thoele. Frightwig's current line-up is Deanna Mitchell, Mia d'Bruzzi, and Eric Drew Feldman. In September, 2014, the band did a US east coast tour with Jane Lee Hooker. History Deanna Ashley was raised by a "hippie" mother who introduced her to Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joan Baez, Jimi Hendrix, and the Beatles. When Ashley was 16 years old, she moved to San Francisco. She met Mia Levin at a movie theater in the city. Ashley later described, "It was just one of those magic things when you meet your soul mate. But we also had a lot of angry shows. That’s like a lot of relationships: you get mad at each other, you go through all of everything. And that’s what makes a relationship." Ashley and Levin, who had grown tired of rock music, formed Frightwig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Entertainment War
World Entertainment War was an American funk rock band, formed in 1986. They recorded four records before disbanding in 1993, and then played reunion concerts in 2000 and 2001, and again in 2009. The band describes itself as “a benevolent media virus programmed to prevent the entertainment criminals from stealing your imagination." History In 1986, George Earth and Anthony Guess together conceived the unnamed band that would later become World Entertainment War. Earth played lead guitar and co-wrote songs with drummer Guess. They invited both bassist Daniel Vee Lewis and keyboardist David Hannibal, with whom they had recently been jamming, to play with the new group, which still remained nameless. Rick Walker of Tao Chemical, Guess's drum teacher, suggested they contact another local musician friend of his, Rob Brezsny, also of Tao Chemical, who was simultaneously developing a new and broad idea that he called "World Entertainment War". The band went to see Brezsny perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spot 1019
Spot 1019 was a rock combo that started in the early 1980's in Santa Cruz California with vocalist Joe Sloan and bassist Jimb Lyons having first played together in a 1979 campus combo called the Tokyo Negroes. After leaving college the Spot 1019 band eventually moved North to San Francisco by the late 1980's. Joe Sloan's imaginative and fantastically silly lyrical themes included UFO's, Bacon, Psychedelic Drug references and imaginary rock festivals populated with characters from 1960s pop culture like Cesar Romero and Buddy Hackett. The four-piece band specialized in humorous rock tinged with country western, blues, pop and punk influences, beginning their career in earnest with a self titled full length LP on Camper Van Beethoven's vanity imprint label Pitch-A-Tent with released in 1986. In 1990 they were signed by Lisa Fancher of Frontier Records, which re-released their debut, and 2 other albums by the band, that despite some college radio airplay and regular touring, neve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afflicted (band)
Afflicted was a technical death metal band from Sweden, active in the early 1990s.Martin „CYKLO“ Cvilink: Actual Necromantical Sonic Terrorization, magazine ''Spark'', No.8/1995, vol. 4, page 14 (Czech) They were part of the Swedish death metal scene, though overshadowed by better-known bands like Entombed and Dismember. Members *Michael Van Der Graaf - vocals *Jesper Thorsson - guitar *Joacim Carlsson - guitar *Philip Von Segebaden - bass *Yasin Hillborg - drums Discography *''Prodigal Sun'' ( Nuclear Blast, 1992) *''Dawn of Glory Dawn is the time that marks the beginning of twilight before sunrise. It is recognized by the appearance of indirect sunlight being scattered in Earth's atmosphere, when the centre of the Sun's disc has reached 18° below the observer's horizon ...'' ( Massacre Records, 1995) References External links Afflicted Encyclopaedia Metallum Swedish death metal musical groups Musical groups established in 1992 Musical groups disesta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MDC (band)
MDC is an American punk rock band formed in 1979 in Austin, Texas, subsequently based in San Francisco, and currently Portland, Oregon. Among the first wave of bands to define the sound and style of American hardcore punk, MDC originally formed as The Stains; they have periodically changed the meaning of "MDC", the most frequent being Millions of Dead Cops. The band's lyrical content expresses radical left political views and has proven influential within the punk subculture. MDC released material through ex-Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra's independent label Alternative Tentacles. In the 1990s, vocalist Dave Dictor published editorials for the internationally distributed fanzine '' Maximumrocknroll''. MDC's initial run ended in 1995, and the band spent five years on hiatus, before returning in 2000 with some new band members. Career Early years Formed in the late 1970s as The Stains and playing their first gig under this name in August 1980, MDC were one of three pioneering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poison Idea
Poison Idea was an American punk rock band formed in Portland, Oregon, in 1980. History Formation, 1980s, and 1990s Poison Idea was formed in 1980 by vocalist Jerry A. (aka Jerry Lang). The initial lineup consisted of Jerry A., Chris Tense (bass), and Henry Bogdan (later of Helmet) on drums. Jerry described this early version of the band, in which he sang and played sax, as a "kind of PIL thing" and only lasted a few shows. Jerry and Tense (now on guitar) then hooked up with Glen Estes (bass), and Dean Johnson (drums). Inspired by Black Flag and other early Southern California hardcore acts, they were further influenced by Discharge and Los Angeles's Germs. Germs singer Darby Crash's influence on singer Jerry A., vocally, lyrically, and philosophically, was considerable, and Poison Idea followed the Germs' extremist punk ethic. Tense was replaced within a year by Tom "Pig Champion" Roberts (guitar), formerly of the Imperialist Pigs but he would soon return to the ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
