Defunkt: Jazz-Punk-Funk
Steve Bloom, Downbeat, June 1981
THE PURPLE tights and checkered t-shirt crowd knows for sure. They meet to the beat every night in sundry rock clubs, discharging a generationful of surgeon general warnings and end-of-the-world nuclear threats. They like their music raw, to the point, fast and, most of all, minus pretention. In their trend-setting outfits and short-cropped, post-shag 'dos, they should be the last to complain about stylistic fakery. Still, they have become a vanguard of sorts: they are the so-called new wave.
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