Pere Ubu

Carnival of Souls (2014) ...

Warping back to present times briefly, we find Pere Ubu and the just-about-released Carnival of Souls, coming to a ghost town near you ...

Golden Surf II ...

Well if she's got a problem it'll go right along with her ...

Irene ...

"In the real world, the real Sex Pistols was a band called Henry Cow."...

Viva Pa Ubu ...Henry Cow ... 

"I’d say the leap from, say, Woody Guthrie and Chuck Berry to “Like A Rolling Stone” is greater than the one from “Like A Rolling Stone” to Pere Ubu. And yet Dylan is a cultural icon while Pere Ubu maintains only a cult following. Why is this? Is there a threshold for challenge in popular culture that “Like A Rolling Stone” walks right up to, but does not cross? Are the sales and marketing departments of today––and the hierarchical power structures they’re associated with––more powerful and, seemingly by corollary, more scared of new ideas? The answer to both of those questions is probably “yes,” at least to some extent. But does it have to be this way? I don’t think it does... " ...In praise of Pere Ubu ...

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