The female icons in music I aspire to — Patti Smith, Chrissie Hynde, Annie Lennox — they also embody this kind of punk-hippie attitude.
In the kind of punk scene I came from it was so important for girls to have confidence, so important for women to empower each other.
It compresses the push-me-pull-you rhythm of soft lulls and big buildups into pop-song length without sacrificing any heat or unruly noise, and it features Gordon on vocals, doing the kind of punk yowling that the band hasn't tried in a while.
Spider-Punk seems like the kind of punk who would get his mom's maid to sew patches onto his punk jacket for him.
They're the kind of punk where an iPod is employed at points and hyper video game music is coupled with screaming and guitars.
I don't mean the kind of punks that are up to no good, but the punks that are up against the establishment," said Ek. "We're really punks because we're restless, and because we really hate it when people tell us 'this is just the way it is'".
For Marclay this kind of activity was punk before its time, and his own contribution to that lineage is Graffiti Composition, which will receive its first British performance as part of the Barbican retrospective.
From this humiliation she makes a kind of punk poetry, refashioning herself into a Marin County Wendy O. Williams.
This could be aesthetics, though, and have nothing to do with some kind of punk refusal.
