RAB Radio #32 and #33
Hallelujah, there are two new Ribbon Around a Bomb Radio podcasts uploaded on Radio Valencia for your listening pleasure! #32- Snakes Crawl is a legit-per-usual assortment of female-fronted punk, including … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Sanja Iveković
Photographer and video/performance artist Sanja Iveković was the first artist in Croatia to outwardly identify as a “feminist” artist. A lot of her works from the ’70s deal with the … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Punk in Museums?
If you know me (and internet-knowing me totally counts) then you know that two of my fav things in life are punk music and art museums. No, you know what, … Continue reading
In the Mood For… Post-Punk Pins
I’ve been feeling the buttons lately. My friend Krissie bought me some Twin Peaks pins recently, and I just went to an event at this legit Chicana/punk art gallery (Everlasting … Continue reading
Noisegasm: Pere Ubu
So I was thinking the other day about how I used to consider myself an enthusiast of electronic music, but then, I was asked to cover a colleague’s radio show. … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Womanhouse
In 1972, Judy Chicago and over a dozen other female artists came together to present Womanhouse, the first collaborative exhibition of feminist art in the United States. Set in an … Continue reading
Noisegasm: Mögel
Last night, a friend of a friend hooked me up with the complete(?) recordings of all-female svenskt muskikgrupp Mögel. I am seriously digging these zigzag rhythms and delightfully atonal Swedish … Continue reading
San Francisco: New Wave Tidal Wave Threatens East Bay
Brilliant 1979 spoof newspaper in which, “Biafra Campaigns for Mayor” of San Francisco. For those who don’t have impeccable eyesight like I do, the highlights are: 1. Biafra’s campaign is … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: David Wojnarowicz’ Rimbaud in New York Series
Why do all the cool New York artists (see: Ginsburg, Patti Smith, and Wojnarowicz) love Rimbaud so much? Oh, that’s right, because he’s the shit. Below, a couple violent verses … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Mary Beth Edelson
Ever a sucker for ’70s-era feminist art, I’ve been getting into Mary Beth Edelson lately. I can’t really get behind some of her new age-y, reclaiming-the-Goddess works, but these cheeky … Continue reading
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