Originally published 4 February, 2009 in The Village Voice
Let it be known that Brooklyn indie-pop quartet the Pains of Being Pure at Heart did not just appear out of nowhere. “It’s been a lot of work,” says singer/guitarist Kip …
Author: Stephen Slaybaugh
Originally published 10 July, 2017 in DealNews
The prices of 4K televisions, or Ultra HD TVs, have dropped dramatically over the last few years. You’ve probably either bought one, or are thinking about buying one. Indeed, according to Strategy Analytics, …
Originally published 30 March, 2018 in DealNews
Unless you’ve been living without internet for the last few years, you’ve probably heard about cord-cutting, and have either made the break yourself or at least thought about it. Perhaps the only thing …
As the bass player in both Joy Divison and New Order, Peter Hook has been at the center of two of the most distinctive and influential bands to follow in the wake of punk rock. As he details in his …
Originally published 26 January, 2015 in The Agit Reader
Named by friends in The Mekons after a faction in China’s Cultural Revolution of the late ’60s, Gang of Four is perhaps most widely known as the post-punk provocateurs responsible for …
A multimedia history of the Cleveland Proto-Punk Era, 1971–76 created for Digital Storytelling module as part of my MA Digital Media course at London Metropolitan University…
Originally published 11 June, 2012 in The Agit Reader
As they say, there are those moments in life that catch you off-guard no matter how much you prepare for them. Talking to John Lydon is surely one of them. After …
Originally published 17 July, 2020 in The Agit Reader
Though their jangly guitars and penchant for pop melodies bore some of the hallmarks of the so-called C86 sound, more than anything else what united the Close Lobsters with the other …
Originally published 9 June, 2020 in The Agit Reader
We’ve interviewed dozens of artists here on The Agit Reader, some more than once, and there’s no one that we have spoken to more frequently than Pere Ubu’s David Thomas. While …