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Get Ready To Go Down Under with Peter Hook & The Light

Peter Hook & The Light are taking the Get Ready 25th anniversary tour to Australia and New Zealand, beginning July 8 in Christchurch before wrapping the global run with a North American leg later this summer. Along with performing New Order's Get Ready in full, fans can expect a rotating set of favorites from both New Order and Joy Division. John Greenwood argues that Hook's shows remain far more than nostalgia, capturing the atmosphere, emotion, and intensity that made those songs timeless in the first place.

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Coholic #2: We Are All Broken

Some families give you roots. Others give you reasons to run. This chapter follows a path from a fractured childhood into the welcoming chaos of punk, where skateboards, spray paint, loud music, and the right group of misfits become a lifeline. Beneath a graffiti-covered bridge, war stories are traded like cigarettes, proving that sometimes the closest thing to therapy is finding people just as beautifully fucked up as you are.

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Divine Intervention: Mosswood Meltdown Is Back, and It's a Sacrament

In Spite of everything the modern music industry has become, Mosswood Meltdown remains a fiercely independent celebration of punk, art, and outsider culture. With performances from Pavement, Iggy Pop, Bikini Kill, Otoboke Beaver, The Dead Milkmen, and more, plus John Waters, Peaches Christ's Punk Pride, and a weekend built on community instead of corporate sponsorship. Mosswood consistently proves that the underground is where the real magic happens. Featuring photos by Dick Slaughter with new previously un-released photos of Iggy Pop and Bikini Kill,

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Coholic—Episode 1: Born Into Fire

A brutal, unflinching serialization about surviving abuse, finding refuge in punk, and carrying the weight of trauma into adulthood and emergency response work. Moving between memory, firehouse reflections, and the formation of Al & the Coholics, it traces how music, rebellion, and chosen family became a lifeline for someone trying to outlive the ghosts that never fully leave.

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Punk on Film: Sci-Fi and Horror at the End of the American Dream

A dive into the grimy, paranoid world of Reagan-era sci-fi and horror cinema, where consumerism, media manipulation, addiction, and class warfare mutate into cult classics filled with punk spirit and anti-establishment rage. From alien-controlled capitalism in They Live to the cosmic nihilism of Repo Man, these films channel outsider rebellion, body horror, and distrust in the American Dream at the exact moment it began to decay in plain sight.

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