J. Robbins was the man behind iconic indie bands like Jawbox and Burning Airlines.  We talk to him about his newest band, and how much he loves Martin Amis. 

A band named after a Jim Thompson novel who sound like “Suicide and Swans duking it out in some David Cronenberg adaptation of a William Burroughs book that isn’t Naked Lunch (and, yeah, maybe some early Nick Cave as well).”

Read our Band Booking with Pop. 1280. 

Klein is used to being labeled a “riot-grrrl throwback,” and you don’t have to look far to see links. She openly admits that Sara Marcus’ history of the movement, Girls to the Front, was the initial inspiration for Permanent Wave. And even on that night at 285 Kent, J.D. Samson’s presence left the room a mere two steps away from the original scene. Samson shot to fame with Le Tigre, an electro-dance group fronted by Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna. Given the fact that we’re in the midst of a “full-blown riot grrrl nostalgia trip,” it’d be easy to assume that you can put Permanent Wave on the same Brooklyn retro shelf as manual typewriters and artisanal pickles. (via Permanent Wave’s Feminist Activism Blends Music and Politics – Tablet Magazine)

Also, maybe consider reading the essay Klein wrote for us on Patti Smith? 

“Nothing really prompted me other than the desire to make and complete a solo record. I feel like it was long overdue. The parts were written for therapeutic reasons and originally had no order to them, the reason I wanted to arrange them into songs was because I had never lived up to that challenge before.” (via Interviewed: Victor Villarreal Talks “Invisible Cinema,” Cap’n Jazz, And More | Vol. 1 Brooklyn)

Parts and Labor — whose final show is tonight — have had four drummers over their ten-year existence as a band. At The L Magazine, Lauren Beck talked to all of them. (via Ten Years of Parts & Labor, Through the Eyes of Their Four Drummers | Features | The L Magazine - New York City’s Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide)

We chatted with the punk duo Trophy Wife, who play Brooklyn tomorrow at Secret Project Robot. (via Band Booking: Trophy Wife | Vol. 1 Brooklyn)

We will never get tired of books about the LA punk scene. (via Morning Bites: Porsche Bikes, LA Fanzines, Women Writers in NYC, Old Book Smell, and More | Vol. 1 Brooklyn)

“Funny story that involves Jesse Michaels and his father Leonard Michaels…” (via Band Booking: Andrew Jackson Jihad | Vol. 1 Brooklyn)

“Pussy Riot is — to borrow the Clash’s mantle for a second — the only band that matters.”

Spencer Ackerman’s “Making Punk a Threat Again” is essential reading.