Warptour vol.3 - The Stooges, Chicago

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Ontopićno: screw punk, it’s some fascist Saturday bullshit... there's gonna be noise all over the city, I'm staying home...

Jason Chavez32 said:So, what’s the deal with the punk scene lately? Anyone hearing anything actually new—some fresh sound that isn't just the same old recycled garbage?

Noah Myers67 said:Of course it exists... it's called Punk Rock. 🤷

Jason Chavez32 said:Emo? Seriously? Please—give me a break. 🤷

Karen Doyle2 said:No way, no.. 🙂 Punk Rock is all the rage lately—honestly, it’s getting ridiculous. 😬

You guys seriously have no clue.

Cyberpunk—it’s just a vibe, right? But honestly, most people don't get the grit behind it—they just want the neon lights and the shiny gadgets. Real cyberpunk is about that raw, low-life struggle in a high-tech wasteland. It's messy, it's dirty, and it's much more than just some aesthetic. 🙏

Why hasn't "cyberpunk" been used to describe some flavor of industrial music since the eighties? I’ve always felt like that vibe bled into the music scene pretty much right after the term was first cooked up in sci-fi novels. 🙂

Here’s the Wikipedia rundown on cyberpunk 🤷

From what I can tell, they define cyberpunk mostly as fiction, but Alexei Shulgin—the guy behind the 386 DX crew—actually brought it to life through virtual reality. The dude is basically one of the pioneers of net art, with a ton of massive projects under his belt, including how he pioneered cybersex by inventing physical interfaces specifically for that 😁. I’ve been following this since the jump, so back in the day, I actually found the whole story about his cyberpunk band pretty fascinating. The group members only ever met online, and they recorded everything without using actual instruments—just pure computer-generated sounds and even synthesized vocals. Okay, nothing groundbreaking now, but they used to pull off these online concerts where everyone was scattered across the globe, yet video walls would stitch them together into one single image. Honestly, I think their best track was that cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," and if I remember right, you can still find a legal download somewhere on the web 🙏

He did a bunch of lectures and shows at the local club way back when.

Hey! Don't you dare go coming for Shulgin, you jerk! 🙂
I first ran into him back in the nineties at the Next Five Minutes festival in Amsterdam—we had a blast then—and honestly, when he performed up on that second floor at the club in Washington, D.C., during those wilder times, we were all having the time of our lives.
And besides, what Josephine 😍 wrote in that text message? She’s actually a great friend of mine. 🧐

Shulginov "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

Believe it or not, FUFME actually made its way onto the Top 10 list of internet sleep aids. 🤣

Raymond Barrett12 said:Hey—don't you dare bring Shulgin into this, you jerk! 🙂

Who's messing with him? I was just starting to say some good things about the guy! 🤷

Man, even Alexei Shulgin was a buddy of mine once. 😍

I haven't really looked into those projects. 😳

Aside from some of those interfaces... 😳 😳

Yeah, it's all just a bit much. 🙂

As far as I'm concerned, cyberpunk is still all about William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. 🤷

Of course there had to be some concert on February 2nd, right when I finally cleared my schedule for the forum party. 🙂 Last time it was some show too, and the time before that, it was a massive playoff game. 🤣😬

And is the editing even any good? 🤮

Melissa Torres4 said:Of course there had to be some concert on February 2nd, right when I planned the big forum blowout. 🙂 Last time it was some show too, and the time before that, it was some major championship game. 🤣😬

😘 🙂
Fine, just push it back a week.

It’s a losing battle trying to decide between this forum's endless bickering and actually showing up to the Coachella set—honestly, even those planning to hit the festival won't be able to decide which one is more exhausting 😕

At the end of the day, maybe four people from this entire thread will actually make it to the show... if we're lucky 🙄

Today marks the anniversary of EKV's passing, and of course, a massive crowd of forum users shows up just to talk about going to the tribute party. Look, not everyone shares your specific taste, you punk rocker 🙄

And well, clearly not everyone has good taste in music

Since it’s the final Saturday before Easter, a chunk of the crowd hitting up all three events is probably gonna drift my way toward Princeton to grab some drinks in the square and hang out at the Scout. 🙂

stormyviper11 said:Since that’s the final Saturday of Carnival season, expect a chunk of the crowd from all three events to drift my way toward Princeton to grab some drinks around the town square and at The Punk. 🙂

And after that, I’m heading straight to Boogaloo and KSET!

Prije: 🤮

poster 🙏 🙂

😁😁I'd definitely go 😁😁

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