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guerrilla-operator · 9 months

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PERE UBU

#pere ubu #david thomas #art punk #post-punk #art rock #avant-rock #new wave #protopunk #industrial rock #punk #rock

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zef-zef · 2 days

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Afropunk Futurism Fantastic new album by Avalanche Kaito.

Avalanche Kaito - Borgo From Avalanche Kaito - Talitakum (Glitterbeat, 2024)

fav tracks: Borgo - Tanvusse - Talitakum - Machine (The Mill)

Kaito Winse (flute, mouth bow, vocals) Nico Gitto (guitar) Benjamin Chaval (drums, synths and electronics)

#2020s #Belgium #Avalanche Kaito #Experimental Rock #Avant-Rock #Griot #Noise #Electronic #Experimental #Polyrhythmic Futurism #Afropunk Futurism #post-punk #Glitterbeat #2024 #Bandcamp

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kdo-three · 5 months

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The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray (1968) Lou Reed / Sterling Morrison / John Cale / Maureen Tucker from: "White Light/White Heat" (LP)

Proto-Punk | Noise Rock | Avant-Rock

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Size: 40MB Length: 17min:32sec

Personnel: Lou Reed: Lead Vocals / Guitar John Cale: Vox Continental Organ Sterling Morrison: Fender Stratocaster Guitar Maureen Tucker: Drums

Produced by Tom Wilson

Recorded: @ The Scepter Records Studios in New York City, New York USA during September of 1967

Album Released: on January 30, 1968

Verve Records

'Sister Ray'was recorded in one take.

"'Sister Ray' evolved from a most basic funk riff ,,, into stark sound structures of incredible complexity." Lester Bangs, 1970

#Lou Reed #Tom Wilson #Verve Records #Sister Ray #White Light/White Heat #The Velvet Underground #1960's #Proto-Punk #Avant-Rock #Noise Rock

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spaceintruderdetector · 1 year

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Pere Ubu - Chinese Radiation

/ i saw it coming / I saw the red guard / I saw the new world / I saw the Big Wall / Out on the Big Waves

#pere ubu #rock #art punk #post-punk #new wave #avant-rock

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rainingmusic · 1 year

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Thurston Moore - Ono Soul

#youtube #thurston moore #ono soul #psychic hearts #tim goljahn #steve shelley #indie rock #alternative rock #noise rock #avant-rock #music #music video #music is love #music is life #music is religion #raining music #90s #90s music

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breedsblood · 1 month

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PJ Harvey - Down By The Water - Live Streaming With Just Jen Reacts

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memorableconcerts · 10 months

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The Young Gods - "Jimmy" - Voz do Operário - Lisboa - 1992

The young Gods 1992

#Industrial rock #industrial #avant-rock #post-industrial #the young gods

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battlebattleofthebands · 6 months

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Listen to Talking Heads - new wave post-punk avant-funk art pop worldbeat dance-rock (source: Wikipedia)

Listen to They Might Be Giants - alternative rock (source: IMdb)

#talking heads #new wave #post punk #avant funk #art pop #worldbeat #dance rock #they might be giants #alt rock #alternative rock #bigbandboogiepolls

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guerrilla-operator · 1 year

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THE SUGARCUBES

#the sugarcubes #björk #alternative rock #post-punk #avant-pop #avant-rock #rock

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legendarytragedynacho · 5 months

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Björk

#björk #bjork #music #musician #musica #actress #rock #rock music #singer #rock singer #beauty #alternative rock #art pop #experimental music #avant garde #electronic music #the sugarcubes #post punk

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haveyouheardthisband · 6 months

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#Experimental Rock #Electronic #Jazz-Rock #Avant-Garde Metal #Electronic Dance Music #poll

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jimmorrisonfants · 8 months

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The Last Shadow Puppets cover of Leonard Cohen’s Is This What You Wanted (2016).

#coolest mf on the planet #alex turner #miles kane #tlsp2 #tlsp #the last shadow puppets #leonard cohen #cover #music #tumblr #video #song #live #album #amazing #rock #2016 #bowie #avant garde

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the-cricket-chirps · 1 month

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Oskar Schlemmer (Bauhaus), Costume for the Triadic Ballet (Das Triadische Ballett), 1926

Striped bodysuit for David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane tour, Design by Kansai Yamamoto. Photograph by Masayoshi Sukita, 1973

Oskar Schlemmer, Bauhaus Ballet Poster, Das Triadische Ballett, 1924

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thecreativemillennial · 4 months

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Siouxsie sioux at Blondie's party, at Notre Dame Hall in 1977. Credit to Ray Stevenson

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shifting---patterns · 3 months

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How Post-Punk Influenced Nowadays Fashion

It's been a long time since Malcolm McLaren opened his boutique "Sex" in the 1970s, and Vivienne Westwood equipped the Sex Pistols with their iconic outfits and sent them out onto King's Road. The approach back then was: "Being anti at all costs, against the establishment." Eventually, it turned into "Do It Yourself." It was fashionable because it tried not to be fashionable.

A few years later, members of Joy Division met at a Sex Pistols show in 1976 and started as a punk band. However, it soon evolved into something entirely different. When you listen to old Joy Division songs like "Warsaw" you can clearly hear the punk rock influences, but the band quickly started to deviate from the common motifs of the genre.

The music slowed down. The noisy guitar sound of punk was subdued to appear more intriguing, and Ian Curtis's existentialist lyrics, influenced by authors like Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Franz Kafka, focused not on chaos, rebellion, and hedonism but reflected his fears, physical sufferings, and the absurdity in the face of the zeitgeist and social influences of the 1970s and 1980s, marked by changes and political uncertainty, forced Joy Division to experiment.

They created not only something musically unique but also something aesthetic. For example, with their monochromatic designs on their album covers for "Unknown Pleasures," which is probably the third best-selling T-shirt in fast fashion stores, alongside Nirvana and the Ramones T-shirts. Joy Division ended in 1980 after Ian Curtis hung himself in his kitchen. They not only helped shape the sub-genre "Post-Punk" but were also the unofficial soundtrack of existentialism. The soundtrack that made Joy Division's music feel so genuine. Because it was genuine.

Of course, in the 1960s, there were artists who processed existential themes in their lyrics. A good example would be Lou Reed of The Velvet Underground, who, heavily influenced by literature, dealt with many serious topics in his lyrics. However, it wasn't just their music; it was also their appearance that defined Joy Division. On stage, in promo pictures, and in interviews.

Ill-fitting shirts from army surplus stores, old man's pants, a few pair of derbies, big raincoats. Everything that was atypical for the punk movement, and many other artists, including The Cure, The Smiths, Siouxsie Sioux and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Alien Sex Friend or Sisters Of Mercy, went in the same direction: Through a dark, introspective, sometimes minimalist, but avant-garde aesthetic, they set themselves apart from punk and society, and looking at bands from the Post-Punk Revival from the 2000s like Interpol, Iceage, Molchat Doma, Boy Harsher, or Cold Cave, it quickly becomes apparent that this aesthetic has proven itself for almost 50 years.

This trend was, of course, not only an inspiration for musicians but also for artists, fashion designers, architects, and many more.

One designer that immediately comes to mind is Antwerp-Six member Ann Demeulemeester from Belgium, whose influences clearly evoke artists like Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith but also the playful goth look of the 1980s era by Rei Kawakubo (Comme Des Garcons) or Japan's goth father himself: Yohji Yamamoto.

Her story begins in Antwerp, where she initially studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and quickly got to know the other Antwerp-Six members. She and the Antwerp Six presented their collections at Fashion Week and quickly became highly esteemed designers, now considered among the greatest designers of all time. Many of Ann's collections featured songs by Patti Smith, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, or The Velvet Underground.

This alone shows the influence of Post-Punk on Ann Demeulemeester's designs. Her asymmetrical cuts and draperies, her monochromatic, Kawakubo and Yamamoto-inspired, mainly black designs were groundbreaking, bringing avant-garde ideas in a consumable form to the people.

Another noteworthy designer from Antwerp is Raf Simons and his collections. Raf Simons grew up in the 1980s and was deeply rooted in the punk and goth subculture, whose influence can be traced in many of his collections or directly referenced by Raf himself. Notable are his A/W96 collection, which includes all-black looks with jet-black dyed hair and long black overcoats, his A/W99 collection with direct Joy Division references, black cloaks, and Gothic looks on the runway.

Raf's most famous collection A/W02-03 Riot Riot Riot! A coveted collection featuring cutoff and distressed hoodies, repurposed military garments, and loaded with punk references through patches. Among them, a bomber jacket with a patch depicting the self-harming Richey James Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers.

Obviously, his A/W03-04 Closer collection with a direct collaboration with Peter Saville, the graphic designer of Factory Records, featuring iconic graphics from Joy Division, New Order, and more.

These two examples of designers actively influenced by this culture are just a fraction. These designers were punks or goths themselves. People influenced by the postmodern identity of the time and post-Soviet tradition. Post-Punk fashion embodies the music of the time it emerged and aligns with deeper considerations. So, it didn't take long for the entire fashion world to embrace this style, partly because "Gothic" and "Punk" became more mainstream, and partly because its aesthetic components were easy to design due to their often penetrating monochromatic minimalism.

Not only goths or avant-garde designers like Ann Demeulemeester, Martin Margiela or Rick Owens, deeply connected to the style and subculture of that time, but also luxury designers like Prada, Balenciaga or Bottega Veneta are incorporating it.

The look is romantic, dark, longing for death, partly edgy, partly overloaded. All aspects that exude a constant attraction from the clothing, as people are often drawn to "the other," sometimes even "the forbidden." The look can also be easily detached from the actual Post-Punk/Goth culture - something postmodernity excels at. The style of the Gothic culture can be perfectly broken down into its individual parts and used as a kind of aesthetic sandbox. Here a thick heavy chain, there's a choker, here big long earrings, add a pair of black high combat boots, a slim-fitted mesh shirt, and preferably paint the nails, and you're done. All things that houses like Prada, Marni, Bottega Veneta, for example, have done right.

What we see today in the Post-Punk-influenced style and what we interpret as avant-garde should actually be considered a modern tradition. Post-Punk fashion embodies the music and the spirit of the time it emerged and aligns with deeper existential discourses. The design language and atmosphere of that time are now used by traditional fashion houses to incorporate young designers into their ranks and increase their relevance, merely fulfilling their quota to be considered part of the traditional fashion pipeline of LV, Dior, Gucci, and Balenciaga. The avant-garde cannot be seen as so established. The rapid growth these companies have undergone to make billions and the inheritance method of finding a designer to take over the house are enough to profile themselves as industry magnates.

In a world where fashion constantly reinvents itself, the enduring legacy of post-punk culture persists as a modern tradition. From the raw, rebellious sounds of bands like Joy Division to the avant-garde designs of Ann Demeulemeester and Raf Simons, the essence of post-punk continues to captivate hearts and minds. As luxury fashion houses seamlessly incorporate this style, it's vital to recognize the roots and the countercultural spirit that birthed it.

The romantic, dark allure, the edgy overtones – they all beckon, inviting us to explore "the other," even the forbidden. Yet, amidst the mainstream adoption, a call echoes for authenticity. True avant-gardists, whether musicians or designers, carve their paths, declaring, "This is our thing." The new avant-garde emerges not just from runways but from the pulsating hearts of those deeply rooted in their subcultures.

In a world dominated by industry magnates, the journey of post-punk fashion from the underground to luxury houses is a testament to its enduring power. As we witness the evolution, let us celebrate the genuine, the authentic, and the countercultural voices shaping the new avant-garde.

So, whether draped in asymmetrical cuts or sporting a rebellious attitude, the message is clear: The post-punk spirit lives on, and the next wave of avant-garde creators is ready to make their mark, confidently declaring, "This is our thing."

Davis Jahn

#post punk #gothic #fashion #ann demeulemeester #prada #balenciaga #punk rock #punk #writing #philosophy #art #avant garde #avant garde fashion #raf simons

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memorableconcerts · 10 months

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