Punk Turns 30

Punk Rock It Girl and writer extraordinaire, Pleasant Gehman, aka Princess Farhana has launched a fabulous new blog HERE at http://princessraqs.blogspot.com/ where in her most recent entry, you can read about her Tales of Touring Terror, 1980s Style. If you've ever wondered what it was like, Pleasant's pen (or well... keyboard) will put you right there... you can smell the beer, feel the heat and imagine the hijinx!

Today is Kid Congo Powers birthday and it is a big important one... many happy returns to one of my dearest and lifelong friends!

Miriam Linna, A-Bones drummer extraordinaire This Friday night March 27... FLESHTONES • A-BONES • TWISTAROOS • DEMANDS Southpaw, 125 5th Ave. Brooklyn For the first time ever, the Fleshtones and the A-Bones will share a stage and where better than in their collective hometown - Brooklyn USA! This wild, wild bash will take place at the world famous Southpaw nightclub-- a guaranteed riot! The A-Bones will premiere a bunch of new songs from our upcoming Norton album THE A-BONES, NOT NOW! Bruce Bennett & Billy Miller, the last honest men... A-Bones guitar and vocals and assorted antics It's be four on the floor all night long in this double whammy demolition combination never before attempted! Morten of the Twistaroos is a great pal of both the 'Tones and Bones and the last time they saw him on his home turf, he helped push the A-Bones van through a hellish Oslo snowstorm. Should a blizzard occur on Friday night, the A-Bones are at the beck and call of the Twistaroos for autom...

LA Punk Rock's original It Girl has a benchmark birthday!! Happy birthday Pleasant!

Little did anyone in the bedroom community of Newbury Park, California know back in the 1970s when little Belinda Kurczeski was dreaming of her future that she would be a pop music star... except perhaps for Belinda herself. The Belinda I knew from high school days was not just the cheerleader that the general public knows about... she was also a member of her high school's Forensic Speaking Team... as was I. That's how we met... our extracurricular activity - the speech tournament - found us always listed and therefore seated next to one another - as Kereakes (my last name) and Kurczeski (Belinda's last name) both begin with "K" and are equally as confusing to pronounce to those unaccustomed to the European surname. In 1978, believe it or not, the pages of Vogue magazine featured outfits not unlike the one Belinda is wearing above - "This Year's Model" is an apt caption. Whether you dig that fashion statement or not, Belinda was a bonafide punk ro...