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3 pieces filed under #punk
Culture
Anybody else remember when Michael Stipe professed irony to be the shackles of youth? Goddamn, I miss irony. I miss when being young came with confusion, bad decisions, loud guitars, and an irrational hatred of whatever your parents enjoyed.
Unfiltered
From CBGB to the Mudd Club, New York's punk venues were cheap, dirty, and loud enough for bands with more attitude than money. Then the neighborhoods changed — and the culture that made them valuable got priced out of them.
Culture
Before the condos and the cocktail bars, the Bowery was a place where art didn’t ask permission. A street-level dispatch from the last neighborhood that still remembers.