In the 80’s, punks faced a global struggle with the mainstream and the police from around the world and through it, we became an international family of misfits. It was hard to visualize what other scenes looked like, because all we had were bad xerox photos and a whole lot of imagination. This is why […]
Today I want to share with you the world’s largest punk photo archive called Karl Nagel’s PUNKFOTO. It has over 12,000 pictures dating from 1978 to 2000. What I really dig about this site is how it is a real life look at how German punks were living at the time, so I put together […]
Pinched from Dazed & Confused Although New York and London remain at the epicentre of the original punk movement, the emigration of the genre’s anti-establishment spirit to Japan gave Tokyo youth an outlet to rage against the severe economic challenges of the mid-1970s. And while the memory of this short-lived punk scene has since faded among the […]
Is there life after youth? I don’t think you die when you age into adulthood, but you have to hold on to your youth! I get to express my youth every day I’m a part of CVLT Nation. I also get to look back at how subcultures of all types shaped my youth and guided […]
Today I want to share with you the world’s largest punk photo archive called Karl Nagel’s PUNKFOTO. It has over 12,000 pictures dating from 1978 to 2000. What I really dig about this site is how it is a real life look at how German punks were living at the time, so I put together […]
When I was a teenager, there were many things that I feared, like the threat of Nuclear War or the L.A.P.D., and there were many people I hated like Ronald Reagan or P.W. Botha. I had issues with these beings these fears motivated my youth rebellion. While I was going through it, there were youth […]
CHICAGO — Drinking Boys and Girls Choir's founding members Bae Meena and Kim Myeong-jin (MJ) have been relentless in the face of adversity and indifference after forming the skate punk band way back in 2013 in Daegu.
Are the National poised to be Brooklyn’s answer to Radiohead?
If I had to pick one magazine that covered the Goth movement the best, it would be PROPAGANDA by Fred H. Berger. As a teenager in Venice, California I would go to my local magazine store and read every issue. What always got my attention were the covers, because the photos were always striking! This […]
When I was a teenager, there were many things that I feared, like the threat of Nuclear War or the L.A.P.D., and there were many people I hated like Ronald Reagan or P.W. Botha. I had issues with these beings these fears motivated my youth rebellion. While I was going through it, there were youth […]
In the 80’s, punks faced a global struggle with the mainstream and the police from around the world and through it, we became an international family of misfits. It was hard to visualize what other scenes looked like, because all we had were bad xerox photos and a whole lot of imagination. This is why […]
This queer graffiti is beautiful, funny, and seriously badass.
Tiwi tribesman, Australia National Geographic | March 1956
From Martin Parr to Bruce Davidson, photographers have long reflected the fizzing energy and troubled friction of British culture and its class system
All Photos via Raya 80’s The kids will be united and the kids will rebel! This was just the case with what happen with punk in the 80’s. Early on, because of MRR I knew that what was taking place in SoCal was taking place all over the world simultaneously. The impact that punk had […]
This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.
steampunksteampunk: cawpops
Fashion served as form of visual communication, which effectively expressed punks’ disobedient and individualistic nature. 80s punks wore clothes set themselves apart from the status quo by rebelling against the limitations that society continued to put in place.
What punk scene captured my imagination the most during 80's? It had to be the UK scene, especially once I started getting into Peace Punk real heavy. Today CVLT Nation wants to share with you portraits of 80's UK Punk culture!
What punk scene captured my imagination the most during 80's? It had to be the UK scene, especially once I started getting into Peace Punk real heavy. Today CVLT Nation wants to share with you portraits of 80's UK Punk culture!
Piss-stained streets, CBGB’s matinees, junkies, Reagonomics and no hope were the kind of things that NYC punks had on their plates during the 80′s. I have a different kind of respect for east coast hardcore kids from back then, because we had it good on the west coast. Yeah, we all had parents that did […]
An Interview with 'Deptford' John Armitage
When I was a teenager, there were many things that I feared, like the threat of Nuclear War or the L.A.P.D., and there were many people I hated like Ronald Reagan or P.W. Botha. I had issues with these beings these fears motivated my youth rebellion. While I was going through it, there were youth […]
What punk scene captured my imagination the most during 80's? It had to be the UK scene, especially once I started getting into Peace Punk real heavy. Today CVLT Nation wants to share with you portraits of 80's UK Punk culture!
