In a rather amusing classic 2010 sketch from Saturday Night Live, a loving father (Fred Armisen) asks his daughter at her wedding if she’d mind if he and his former bandmates (Bill Hader, Ashton Kutcher, and Dave Grohl) played one of their songs together for one last time. The blushing bride agreed.
What she didn’t know, however, was that her father was the frontman for the punk band Crisis of Conformity. As they performed the song “Fistfight in the Parking Lot”, the bride’s father got very much into character and essentially destroyed everything he saw, punk-rock style.
A father…reunites with his old punk band, Crisis of Conformity,… to play their song “Fistfight in the Parking Lot” at his daughter’s wedding.
In the upcoming film Ordinary World, a bespectacled Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day plays the role of Perry Miller, a former musician and unassuming married father of two who works in the family hardware store. When Perry's wife (Selma Blair) and daughter forget his 40th birthday, Perry's brother Jake…
Industrial artist Kolja Kugler of The Wild Waste Gallery in Berlin, creates amazing anthropomorphic robots made of upcycled and recycled metal parts. Several of Kugler's robots, specifically "Rubble", "Afreakin bassplayer" and "Sir Elton Junk" play real instruments for "One Love Machine", a truly unique punk rock band. The One Love…
http://youtu.be/zZkWHZ3hJtY The Other F-Word, directed by Andrea Blaugrund Nevins, is a documentary about what happens when famous punk rock musicians become fathers (trailer). The film is being screened at select theaters. This revealing and touching film asks what happens when a generation's ultimate anti-authoritarians -- punk rockers -- become society's…
Music essayist Trash Theory takes a look at Buzzcocks song " Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)?, noting that while the band is pure punk rock and the song has punk roots, it also has a universal appeal that's more closely associated with pop music, the very first…
Designer Mike Joyce has redesigned a series of vintage punk rock show flyers into über minimal Swiss modernist posters. via We like that
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