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Pimp-Rock?

Lisa Jane Persky, New York Rocker, June 1977

EVERYTHING happens to us all so quickly these days that even before something is completed, it is dated, labels must be attached for definition and the sake of nostalgia. It is to this tradition that we owe malice. The most recent label being "punk" affecting us and ours in a most menacing way.

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