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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The Post-Punk Explosion Part 3: Industrial
Description: By the time we got to the mid-70s, rock had organized itself so that were rules…you did things this way and not that way…then came punk…
One of the great gifts of punk rock was a reminder that you didn’t always have to follow the rules…once this attitude took hold, things began to fragment, metamorphosize and mutate at an increasingly rapid rate…
The stratification and segmenting was astonishing…once punk began to cool, the environment it created coalesced into what became known as new wave, an approach that redefined what rock could sou...