One of my favorite bands in San Diego for a couple years now has been Soft Lions. I was fortunate to see them in their debut show at the Soda Bar at the end of 2013; I saw them again the next year opening for Small Black and Snowmine, and then again this past summer at a headlining record-release show at the Casbah.
When I was a senior at UC Santa Barbara I had a mass media course and along with two friends in the class we put together music and slide show presentation focusing on the still emerging punk rock scene. We explored how the genre was influenced by the society at large and in turn how our culture was being influenced by punk rock. The final 90 seconds of the presentation had every picture we could find of punk musicians and fans flipping off the camera set to music by the <strong>Germs, Fear, Circle Jerks, X</strong> and others.
This song by UK indie pop/punkers, Pins, shows that 35 years later punk’s influence is still going strong and that middle fingers are still a useful form of communication.
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