A near-future surf tour through the new cyberocracy.
A near-future surf tour through the new cyberocracy.
A pitch in short story form for a risky but potentially lucrative business venture.
During his short career, he released electrocuted versions of rock’n’roll, morose electronic masterpieces, and quality pornographic soundtracks. But Cowley is best known as a disco producer who broadened the definition of electronic dance music.
A political proposal regarding social media influencers in short fiction form.
I owe everything to movies. I wish something like this guide was around when I was a kid, but if you want something that doesn’t exist, you have to create it. I tried to keep this relatively easy to find the films (in our sad, sad age of no video stores besides the odd, lucky holdout). Many of the films are available for streaming, rent, or sale online.
An ode to the U.K. seven percent. “What’s the word for nostalgia but when it feels bad?”
The Ramones are the last band to exist before the Ramones invented (or at least mastered and codified) punk: They are the final band of the pre-punk era, the end of the line.
The wrestling arena, just like the basement or DIY venue, is somewhere you can go to be among fellow freaks and weirdos.
The first great thing about a Thomas Pynchon novel: it invites us to see life with more complexity. The world around us is chaos in the purest sense. The second thing about a Pynchon novel: it’s not for everyone.
Fuck it. Let’s get cynical. Punknews is primarily an aggregator of releases pumped out by the public relations machines at labels at an alarming rate.