Following some rather less than good-natured banter in ELM Towers regarding the validity of white honkies like us liking reggae music, I was moved to compile the following list of the Whippet’s guide to the music. Now, I’ll admit it, I’m no expert. I was into punk pretty early on, the start of 1977. However, [...]
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Hownlin’ Whippet finds a punk survivor who may just be producing the best music of his life. As frontman and lyricist for, let’s be honest, Division 2 punk band Eater, Andy Blade had a very early baptism of fire within the music industry. Eater specialised in a robust glam punk racket which were made that bit more [...]
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If Mick Jones had been born on a hog farm in Illinois, then he might have been Jason Ringenberg. The frontman of Jason & The Scorchers was as punk as the Pistols and as country as Cash. The band tore through the 80s with such contemporaries as the Long Ryders and R.E.M., setting the bar [...]
Filed under: General Stuff | Tagged: country, country punk, jason & the scorchers, jason ringenberg, Long Ryders, punk, R.E.M. | 1 Comment »
Despatches from the Americana Festival; Howlin’ Whippet checks in. He’s not a household name by any means, but Texan Alejandro Escovedo should be. He has enough previous to fuel dark, layered stories and wild places in which his world is built. As guitarist with The Nuns he opened for the Sex Pistols at their last [...]
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Dr. Al Zappa checks out the legendary Dead Kennedys frontman. Some lines stick in your head for a lifetime. In words of yesteryear, ‘punks not dead it just deserves to die, when it becomes another stale cartoon’. The waiting assembly of extending waistlines, receding hairlines and comfortable footwear makes me twitchy. Is that a lack [...]
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There is nothing, no force on this planet, more suffused with righteous anger than a punk rocker with a bible and a gun. Oh yeah, he’s back: Howlin’ Whippet looks at another lost album and tells us why we should dust it down…. There has been an almost biblical deluge of books and articles about [...]
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Hardcore bible-thumper and fourth dimension punk purist Howlin Whippet donned his cape and strode out looking for justice. He found a punk icon who can still go…. It’s not often you get to be in the same small room as a bona fide living legend, but tonight in KTWWH, a small crowd are in the [...]
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If you like your music loud enough to strip the enamel from your teeth then Flats may be just what you are after. Officilally the seond loudest band reviewed by ELM – the honour remains with the Fall - Flats bring their own brand of thrashy punk to King Tuts. It may be cold outside [...]
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A great pop single should never last more than 180 seconds, and should really aim to be closer to 120. Why? Because if you can’t say it in that time, it doesn’t need said at all. The Buzzcocks were a magnificent singles band, which is really what all punk bands should have been. This, for [...]
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