http://www.punktalk.com/blog Music Forums Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:08:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Punktalk.com Forum List: Main Punk Lounge - General discussion and forum for anything of inter..... Punk Rock Bands - Talk about your favorite punk rock band. DO NOT PO..... Punk History 101 - How did the punk rock scene start? Who were the fi..... Punk Tech Lounge - Fire away with your questions about ... http://www.punktalk.com/blog/2006/12/punktalkcom-forums/ BLEED THE DREAM BIOGRAPHY 4 members. Dave Aguilera - guitar Keith Thompson - bass Scott Gottleb - drums Brandon Thomas - vocals Dave is the longest standing member of the band, hailing from the Los Angeles area. Keith entered the picture second. He made the cross country trek from his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland to ... http://www.punktalk.com/blog/2008/01/bleed-the-dream-punk-band/   Punk rock is an anti-establishment rock music genre and movement that emerged in the mid-1970s. Preceded by a variety of protopunk music of the 1960s and early 1970s, punk rock developed between 1974 and 1977 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, where groups such as the Ramones, ... http://www.punktalk.com/blog/2007/07/what-is-punk-rock/ The first wave of punk aimed to be aggressively modern, distancing itself from the bombast and sentimentality of early 1970s rock. According to Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone, "In its initial form, a lot of [1960s] stuff was innovative and exciting. Unfortunately, what happens is that people who could not hold ... http://www.punktalk.com/blog/2007/06/characteristics-of-punk/ Preceding the mid-1970s, punk, a centuries-old word of obscure etymology, was commonly used to describe "a young male hustler, a gangster, a hoodlum, or a ruffian". As Legs McNeil explains, "On TV, if you watched cop shows, Kojak, Baretta, when the cops finally catch the mass murderer, they'd say, 'you ... http://www.punktalk.com/blog/2007/05/origin-of-the-term-punk/   The origins of New York's punk scene can be traced back to such sources as late 1960s trash culture and an early 1970s underground rock movement centered around the Mercer Arts Center in Greenwich Village, where the New York Dolls performed. In 1974, the members of a band from Forest ... http://www.punktalk.com/blog/2007/04/early-punk-in-new-york/ Along with Nirvana, many of the leading alternative rock artists of the early 1990s acknowledged earlier punk acts (both famous and obscure) as influences, helping to inspire a punk rock resurgence. In 1994, California punk bands like Green Day, The Offspring, Rancid and Bad Religion had substantial crossover success with ... http://www.punktalk.com/blog/2007/03/emo/ Hardcore punk, characterized by fast, aggressive beats and often politically aware lyrics, developed in the United States in the late 1970s. According to author Steven Blush, "Hardcore comes from the bleak suburbs of America. Parents moved their kids out of the cities to these horrible suburbs to save them from ... http://www.punktalk.com/blog/2007/02/hardcore-punk/ PLACENTIA, California (AP) -- Brent Liles, a former bassist for the 1980s punk rock group Social Distortion, was struck and killed by a truck while riding a bicycle, authorities said Wednesday. He was 43. Read the CNN Punk Bassist Article. http://www.punktalk.com/blog/2007/01/ex-social-distortion-bassist-killed-by-truck/ In the UK, a wide variety of post-punk bands emerged, including The Fall, Joy Division, Gang of Four, and Public Image Ltd. Some bands classified as post-punk, such as Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire, had been active before the punk scene itself had coalesced; others, such as The Slits and ... http://www.punktalk.com/blog/2007/01/post-punk/