She went from suburban teenager to the fearless female face of punk. In the wake of her death, we revisit an interview with Jordan, where she discusses Sex, subversion and the power of wearing your underwear in public
Bernie Brooks
, July 30th, 2021 08:16
Light In The Attic s new compilation spanning Leslie Winer s criminally slept-on career is near-perfect and a must-listen, says Bernie Brooks
I didn t know Light In The Attic was releasing
When I Hit You – You ll Feel It, a long overdue, career-spanning compilation of Leslie Winer s work, until this past Friday. My partner and I listened to it for the first time as we drove to Toledo, Ohio, the following day. Toledo – home to a minor-league baseball team called the Mud Hens, a good zoo, a great art museum in the tradition of corroded Rust Belt cities, and a glass factory – is neither far afield from our home base of Metro Detroit, nor is it a particularly glamorous destination, but this was the first time we d left our home city in probably 15 months.
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It’s 1981. I’m Hip. I’m British. But What Am I Dancing To? ‘Shake the Foundations’ Will Tell You
Cherry Red’s
Shake the Foundations: Militant Funk and the Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984 is a beginner’s guide to pre-millennial, UK cool.
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Shake the Foundations: Militant Funk and the Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984
If you were an American citizen and fancied a little bit of dancefloor action with an edge in the late 1970s to early 1980s, you knew exactly where to go. Michael Zilkha and Michel Esteban’s ZE Records catered for all your esoteric disco needs and made you feel incredibly cool while doing it. They even gave this hipper than hell genre a name to die for – Mutant Disco. Just imagine dropping that into an animated hipster conversation. In the UK, however, everything was a bit more cut and paste and rough and ready. You could still strut your stuff to some edgy tunes, but you had to dig a bit deeper to find them. If only