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Hello, Cruel World…2025 So-Cal Festival Rounds Up a Mixture Of “Alternative” Rookies And Vets

Posted on November 6, 2024 by postpunkmonk

Today, appropriately, I just received an email from DEVO Central touting their appearance at the Cruel World Festival for 2025. Inasmuch as I don’t really feel like writing at all today, I’m going to lean into this negative energy. For … Continue reading →

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Totally Tubular Festival Now Even MORE Tubular With Added Tubes, Wang Chung

Posted on July 9, 2024 by postpunkmonk

The Totally Tubular Festival we got tickets for in January started in Seattle on the 26th of June. Recently, I saw that the story I ran on the festival had been getting a lot of hits in the PPM dashboard. … Continue reading →

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Big Ears Festival Ropes in Monk [and Wife] With Harold Budd Residency

Posted on March 14, 2019 by postpunkmonk

We have attended three of the last five Big Ears Festivals since they have an eye for the sort of artists that we will definitely capitulate for. A-list non-rock artists like Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, and Harold Budd. The festival … Continue reading →

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Popinjays Celebrate Women in Word + Song Next Month

Posted on February 5, 2019 by postpunkmonk

One thing we’ve greatly enjoyed in the last year was the emergence of the great PunkGirlDiaries website wherein Ruth Miller of Po! and Polly Hancock of Popinjays have undertaken writing about their experiences of punk rock as young women in … Continue reading →

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Faust Were My Kind Of Bargain At Big Ears

Posted on April 4, 2016 by postpunkmonk

As The Big Ears Festival approached like a speeding train in my consciousness while occupied by other things, I was happy to see that a month or so out, changes had been made to free up some of the early … Continue reading →

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David Bowie Memory Palace [part 29]

Posted on March 14, 2016 by postpunkmonk

2000 The year 2K brought lots of retrospective music from the man into my Record Cell. In addition to catalog items I bought dating back as far as my Bowie collection would go [thus far], he also headlined the Glastonbury … Continue reading →

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