Article: Never mind the Sex Pistols: Theresa Duncan on Game Boy music.(Sound)

IF PUNK ROCK DIED when the first kid said, "Punk's not dead!" then reports of the genre's vitality would appear to be greatly exaggerated. Everyone from pop star Avril Lavigne to Nike CEO Phil Knight has recently avowed the living influence of punk on their respective cultural output. So many and sudden are allusions to the genre that detecting punk's revivified presence has become the early twenty-first century's answer to Elvis sightings: It's the presence of absence that we're really seeing. All the sneakers and twice-told tales and teen lip-synchstresses are mere memento mori, reminding us how brief punk's moment was, how gone forever it really is.

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