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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Blonkie Watch: NIN/Bauhaus/TVOTR

In RT's now-ongoing quest to educate the New York Times and other outlets on the strange phenomenon of black people into indie/punk/New Wave/weird-ass-white-folks-music, here is a two-fer.

This black blogger hereby presents a video of Nine Inch Nails jamming with classic goth band Bauhaus and my Brooklyn post-punk homies TV On The Radio (who feature a *gasp* black lead singer! The song "Final Solution" is a cover of a seminal proto-punk/alternative band called Pere Ubu -- the second best thing to come out of Cleveland:

Labels: Blonkies, punk, white liberal-media patronization

# posted by Robert A. George @ 7:30 PM

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Hey, Hey, We're The Blonkies!

Madscribe: Retro Record Moment
I am now indebted to RAG for coming up with the name of the Ska-Punk band I was thinking of forming later this year (ha!). Yes, some of use were skinheads even before Mother Nature, the Aryan Nation, or New York Times ruined it for all us alternative-music-minded "crazy baldheads."

And surprise, surprise surprise. You'll never guess who was once recruited to do a "Blonkie Video." The un-Blonkiest filmmaker of them all, Spike Lee, once directed a very blonkie short subject for my all-time favorite blonkie group, Fishbone.

So, sit back and enjoy the ONLY heavy metal video directed by Mr. 40-Acres himself, "Sunless Saturday" ...