Punk Rock Is Alive and Well, No Politics Required

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The current political climate doesn’t come up even once during the latest Popcast, a conversation about Japandroids, the Menzingers and the state of rock.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your deep dive org core debate of music news and criticism.
0:16.1	I'm your host John been bearing with
0:34.7	us through the guitars. That was near to the wild heart of life. That is the opening song from the
0:39.8	new album by Japan droids of the same name. Why are we talking about Japanroids this
0:45.0	week? We are talking about Japanroids and also the mendingers, two different
0:49.8	sorts of punk bands with new records that both kind of grapple with middle age or impending middle
0:55.1	age but in very different ways. I'm joined by the two biggest rock fans on the planet.
1:00.4	New York Times pop music reporter, Joe Coscarelli.
1:02.4	Here I am. And special guest. New York Times pop music reporter Joe Koskerelli.
1:02.5	Here I am.
1:03.4	And special guest, first time on the podcast.
1:06.5	Dan Ozzy, writer editor from Noisy.
1:09.7	And maybe the last real rock critic alive?
1:12.6	Oh, thanks.
1:13.2	I mean, it's to feel that way sometimes.
1:14.9	It'll be the title of my book.
1:16.0	But it does feel that way.
1:17.2	I mean, Dan, if you haven't read Dan, Dan,
1:19.1	Dan is a deeply committed thinker about all things rock music in 2017 which is not a thing
1:25.8	yeah but that's not a thing that a lot of people are anymore and so when I knew we were talking about
1:32.4	this I knew we had to have you in the
1:34.0	building. Yeah I'm glad I'm glad three dudes can get together and talk about
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