Enlarge Dominick Mastrangelo/BrooklynVegan Greg Dulli at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City Wednesday night. Dominick Mastrangelo/BrooklynVegan Greg Dulli at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City Wednesday night. In the midnight hours after the Afghan Whigs brought down the Bowery Ballroom Wednesday night, I got an email from my date for the show. "I feel like I stole something that was so good," he wrote. Mind you, ours was an innocent tryst. We were just old college friends out to catch the rebound of some stars of our youth. But the deeply embodied complexities of a great Afghan Whigs show always feel illicit. The music's sexual pull and the cruel urges uncovered in the lyrics doing something that rock — 1990s alternative rock, anyway, ... Continue reading →
Enlarge Dominick Mastrangelo/BrooklynVegan Greg Dulli at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City Wednesday night. Dominick Mastrangelo/BrooklynVegan Greg Dulli at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City Wednesday night. In the midnight hours after the Afghan Whigs brought down the Bowery Ballroom Wednesday night, I got an email from my date for the show. "I feel like I stole something that was so good," he wrote. Mind you, ours was an innocent tryst. We were just old college friends out to catch the rebound of some stars of our youth. But the deeply embodied complexities of a great Afghan Whigs show always feel illicit. The music's sexual pull and the cruel urges uncovered in the lyrics doing something that rock — 1990s alternative rock, anyway, ... Continue reading →
Hometown heroes Die Kreuzen. Band members (clockwise): Keith Brammer, Erik Tunison, Brian Egeness, Daniel Kubinski (Photo: The Crusties Facebook Page) Fans of the first wave of punk rock in the late 1970s and early 1980s found themselves pushing the boundaries of the genre in terms of speed and aggression, eventually creating a subgenre known as hardcore. Bands like Black Flag, Minor Threat, Bad Brains and the Circle Jerks took punk rock to the extreme, with aggressive guitars, thundering drums and off-the-wall vocals. In the following years, the mainstays were revered and their legendary shows were romanticized, while their lesser-known contemporaries faded quietly into obscurity. One of those bands was Milwaukee’s Die Kreuzen. Die Kreuzen challenged audiences for the better part of twelve years by pushing ... Continue reading →
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