“Lydia Lunch’s acerbic monologue in Scott Crary`s now-on-Netflix 2004 no-wave documentary Kill Your Idols chews up modern guitar music. She’s right — telecasters have been on the market since 1948, what’s left? We need to push forward with no wave’s intellectual concepts, vision and extremity. Don’t we?”

A while ago I watched Kill Your Idols and couldn’t stand it. Then I wrote about why I think Lydia Lunch is a grump. Now you can read it in FFWD.

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(Source: derickwynn, via postpunkposters)

Iceage (please pronounce it like a Descendents song, I would think it’s funny) is a band from Copenhagen with a Justin Bieber look-a-like, and you might have seen them in the copy of Viacom Magazine sitting in the bathroom of your shitty retail job.

I wore a Suicide shirt to work the other day and a guy got excited and told me about how Suicide invented Industrial and influenced Nine Inch Nails and didn’t mention punk once. Iceage is sort of like that. People keep calling them post-punk or hardcore or punk or no wave, because they work in all those frames of reference. They’re young and noisy and write catchy songs (a couple songs are pop-punk for sure, or maybe just Futureheads rip offs), so you probably like them already.

They arrived Stateside on tour not long ago, and last week they played a set on WFMU, including two covers that aren’t on New Brigade, for the new fan / completist.

Iceage plays their first Canadian show at Parts and Labour on August 17, with guests to be announced. My money is on Dentata.