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Monday, March 8, 2010
Interview Interview With We Never Learn Author Eric Davidson
Posted by Dave Segal on Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:39 AM
Chunklet has an interview with Eric Davidson, author of We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001. The New Bomb Turks frontman and former Stranger freelancer outlines the scope of his tome thus:
[I]t's basically a rundown of that strata of trash punk bands and their indie labels from the 1990s (mostly, with some late-80s antecedents) who were neither swept up by the "alternative rock boom" or the Green Day/Offspring neo-punk trend; nor were all-out noise fringe-sters. Just hard-working rock'n'roll bands that basically took their re-lit on fire sounds from 50s/60s raw roots, 70s punk, and kind of eye-rolled the leftover macho hardcore dogmatics. Ended up getting sideways validation when that "neo-garage" trend of the early 2000s finally hit (White Stripes, Hives, Strokes, Jet, Donnas, etc.).
Read the whole Q&A here.
(Detroit garage rockers the Gories, who get some love in We Never Learn.)
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