The Persistence of Punk: X, Nick Cave and New Order live in L.A.
Roy Trakin, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2014
IT WILL BE 40 years in December, 2015, since the release of Patti Smith's Horses, on Clive Davis' Arista label, arguably the beginning of the punk movement, emanating from New York's underground in the mid-'70s, ushered in by both the Velvets and the New York Dolls, not to mention the Stooges, MC5 and Lenny Kaye's influential '60s Nuggets collection.
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