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SpokAnarchy! is a 2011 documentary film that chronicles the 1980s punk rock scene in Spokane, Washington.Mixing vintage music videos, live clips, and found footage with contemporary interviews, the film portrays what happened when a group of disaffected teenagers from a small, isolated Northwest city embraced the music and fashion of the big-city punk scenes.
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a rock music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and 1960s garage rock , punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music.
DIY Punk Rock label Dischord Records was founded by key figure in the development of hardcore punk Ian Mackaye. Ian Curtis, Joy Division lead singer, commits suicide 18 May 1980 at age 23. The rest of the band become New Order; Malcolm Owen, the Ruts lead singer, dies of a heroin overdose 14 July 1980 at age 26.
Cowpunk (or country punk) is a subgenre of punk rock that began in the United Kingdom and Southern California in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It combines punk rock or new wave with country , folk , and blues in its sound, lyrical subject matter, attitude, and style.
Considered the first album of its kind to combine punk rock with American roots music, helped to create punk blues. [78] [79] UNCUT: The 500 Greatest Albums of The 1980s: #302 [10] Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. [26] Classic Rock's 100 Greatest Albums Of The '80s: #76 [54] Wiener's 100 Best Records of the Century: #77 ...
Garage rock was the first form of music called "punk", [7] and indeed that style influenced much of punk rock. Punk rock was also a reaction against tendencies that had overtaken popular music in the 1970s, including what the punks saw as "bombastic" forms of heavy metal, progressive rock and "arena rock" as well as "superficial" disco music ...
The Adicts are a British punk rock band from Ipswich, Suffolk, England. [1] A popular English punk rock band of the 1980s, they were often in the indie charts during that decade. [2] [3] The Adicts originated as The Afterbirth in late 1975 but never had any music or played any shows. They later became The Pinz. [4]
The film was shot and edited over five years with many clips of 80s hardcore bands being sent in by the bands themselves. Some of the footage was shot by director Paul Rachman in the 80s. Many of the interviews were actually done in both Paul Rachman's and Steven Blush's apartments in different areas to make it seem like they were done in ...