This is one of the better blogs dedicated to old posters from the 80′s and 90′s hardcore shows.

Updated twice daily, hardcoreshowflyers.com has a cool ‘On this day…’ app at the bottom of the page. You can set it to any day and it will give you the flyers for classic shows that were happening on that date in punk-years gone by.

Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon’s marital separation does a number on Sonic Youth.

Guitarist Lee Ranaldo has furthered the rumours that the band’s future is uncertain – some commentators have even said that it’s all over already. Whatever happens, the ongoing drama is incidental in comparison to the three decades of music they leave behind them.

Shelagh Delaney, who died last November, was one of the most influential play writes the UK has ever produced.

Regardless of your feelings about Morrissey or The Beatles, without Shelagh the working class realism that thread through their music, and more widely through British culture, would have lacked much of it’s insight. The kitchen sink drama – to which Shelaghs best known work, Taste of Honey, is synonymous – remains strong, despite parody because it can absorb it, and because it is fortified by truth.

Lady Gaga + Terry Richardson was in some ways inevitable: a book about a massive alternative star and mainstream alt-style icon, with a lavish stunt based dress sense, shot by a one of the best known photographers around.

If you can forget all the petty complaints about OTT Terry Richardson references you might have the insight to see that this is likely a pretty significant aesthetic document; a marking point on what the current era looks like style-wise. It will probably be most appreciated in a few years time when styles have changed significantly enough for it’s signatory tone to be seen in context.

Music has moved beyond parody and into something far more meaningful.

As I Lay Dying’s Tim Lambesis has taken the current trend for Christmas albums to new heights with this beaut. Through his Arnie themed side project, Austrian Death Machine, Tim has released A Very Brutal Christmas EP and somehow made a genre that trended 7 years ago (deathcore) feel relevant again, with the simple trick of not taking itself to seriously.

With smartphones more widespread this sort of thing will be more common. The eBay Christmas Boutique was a gimmick, but don’t be surprised if you see more big as well as indie retailers trying this concept out. 

Stacking outlets in a set of painted black freights plays the austerity card in a subtle and clever way.

Just next to Shoreditch High Street Overground there’s some cool new brands as well as more the more established. Rather than a plush and fancy shopping centre the simple setting lets the brands speak for themselves.

This guy hacked his iPhone to use Siri to control his home appliances.

Voice command is happening and this guy knows where it’s at. Developers and technology companies take note and beware: this is the future.

His album is actually pretty good, if you like super fast white rap from Kansas, which you do.

Ok, so this guy is making a name for himself parodying Chris Brown whilst flipping pancakes and rapping unintelligibly fast. But his album 11:11 was pretty good – watch out for his next release, it’ll do well.

This pseudo doc was made in 1971 and no one really got it. Now it looks like real life on steroids and anger – and it’s being rereleased on Blu-Ray.

Take it from me Punishment Park is a kick in the bollocks. Set in a fictional Nixon-era America, it follows a counter-culture group battle their way across the desert with no food or water, fleeing arrest. They had to choose between that and a much worse version of real-life American jail.