punks not dead

Punk rock blew up in the late 70s and early 80s with the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Ramones, the Stilts, and about 30 other bands that unconformed through conformity and were established by their anti-establishment ideals. Raw music coupled with a DIY ethic and a ripped, torn, and mucusy aesthetic spawned legions of dark-eyed, died-haired followers. Not coincidentally, stock in Elmer's Glue soared for three years and a bunch of old grey-haired men on the Elmer's Board of Directors filled their suitcases with gold bricks. These bands and their seedy entourages spawned in the streets of Manchester and grew outward, new spawns riding the whip in the back alleys of Brooklyn and the Lower East Side. They were united by the unrelenting constant punk aesthetic, which was more ideological and philosophical than they gave themselves credit for. Sid Vicious spewed more vomit than rhetoric.

Punk rock still exists, but as an evolution of the form in which it originally appeared. Here are a couple of bands that are still slammin' it to the man...

The Black Lips



Deerhunter




both bands are from atlanta.