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June 27, 2014
During a decade in prison, Spike missed the memo that punk had died. Now he's out, reviving his band and playing shows in Tompkins Square Park like CBGB never closed down.
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During a decade in prison, Spike missed the memo that punk had died. Now he's out, reviving his band and playing shows in Tompkins Square Park like CBGB never closed down.
Read MoreWhite Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race has something for everyone who's set his or her alienation to the accompaniment of screaming. I skipped straight to its excerpt of an 1983 Maximumrocknroll interview with Ian MacKaye, whose pre-Fugazi band Minor Threat had recently released the scene-shaking, name-says-it-all song "Guilty of Being White." And I was instantly reminded of someone who otherwise couldn...
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