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Home » protopunk

Tag: protopunk

Posted inMusic

The MC5 celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kick Out the Jams

by Leor Galil September 19, 2018August 18, 2021

Wayne Kramer and worthy sidemen play Metro in honor of the protopunk classic.

Posted inBlogs

In Jaguar Ride, Brian McMahon of the Electric Eels makes the band’s story as defiantly unmarketable as their music

by Kevin Warwick April 13, 2017August 18, 2021

On Saturday at Bric-a-Brac, Brian McMahon of Cleveland protopunk legends the Electric Eels signs copies of the band memoir Jaguar Ride.

Posted inMusic

Chicago protopunks the Crucified released a notorious EP in 1977

by Steve Krakow September 27, 2016August 18, 2021

The Crucified predated the codification of punk as a musical style, so to modern ears their only record sounds more like great, no-frills hard rock.

A Band Called Death
Posted inFilm

Black punks revolt in A Band Called Death

by J.R. Jones June 26, 2013August 19, 2021

A Band Called Death revisits a pioneering black punk band from Detroit.

Posted inBlogs

A Second Death Album?

by Brian Costello September 14, 2010August 19, 2021

From the stage of the Boomslang festival in Lexington, Kentucky, Bobby Hackney of Death announced that Drag City would release a second album of material from the band’s 70s heyday in January 2011.

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