Artistically inspired by the terrorist attack at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, My Chemical Romance united under the revolutionary passion to pursue music and uplift others. What 9/11 is and how many people’s lives were affected across the nation by international terrorism. The 9/11 Investigation references a
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Were the Sex Pistols, the creators of the British punk rock movement, actually punk? This is a difficult question to answer as you take into consideration the reasoning, or more so the person, behind their creation. The genius behind the formation of the Sex Pistols? Malcolm McLaren, or in John
The date was February 6th, 1977, Queen Elizabeth II was celebrating the 25th anniversary of her accession to the throne. Known as the Silver Jubilee, it was a time of celebration for the royal family and parliament. The up and coming punk band originating out of London, England in the
In the film Los Punks, the people were performing punk rock music. Their style is very distinct. They have these incredibly large mohawks that are dyed and they were a lot of dark clothing, typically black, and leather jackets and crazy hairstyles. In the documentary, almost everyone included said that
Pussy Riot is a feminist punk rock protest group based in Moscow, Russia. The group, which consists of about 10-15 women, plans and performs provocative “guerilla” performances in public places, hat are then edited to music and put on the Internet. In 2012 five of the women performed in Moscow’s
“Refugees in, Nazis out / Governments here should feel the shame / Fucking liars, you’re to blame,” The infamous group Pussy Riot strike again with the release of their new music video “Refugees In”. The video, directed by Ralf Schmerberg, is dedicated to the over three quarters of a million
Pussy Riot should probably be the inaugural post on the Art/Crime Archive. These are the young women currently residing in prisons in Siberia (well, two of the three of them; one was released) for playing a political punk rock song inside the Church of Christ the Savior Orthodox church in