Excerpt: R13. Pre-Fall 2025 - New York City

 "Punk started in New York City?  Right? More specifically Lower East Side ala CBGB's back to back early garage rock, proto-punk shows and more specifically NYC rock and roll rebel and icon, Richard Hell and his "Blank Generation", which was recorded in 1975 and heard by the late Malcolm McLaren, the once manager of the Sex Pistols, as a possibility that his U.K. manufactured group could take it all a step further, which they did a year later in 1976, and in true punk fashion, imploded in 1978.  New York City, in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s was indeed a city crumbling around its cacophony of creativity, driven by cheap rents, which in turn spearheaded individualism like no tomorrow, yet in all of its irony NYC then later spearheaded gentrification, prefabrication and feigned elements of digital entrepreneurism throughout the 1990s 2000s to date.  A lesson, if you want clean potemkin villages, don't complain.  

Can our long awaited rebellious counter culture return with gusto?  So far, the horizon looks void and empty, and if a new Blank Generation is to arrive on the scene, it may arrive like it was always there, or not at all.   In the meantime, the most Fascist and dangerous President America has ever had, has been voted in for the 2nd time..."

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(A.Glass 2024)

Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/12/r13-pre-fall-2025-new-york-city.html