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SPIRITUAL CRAMP, RUDE (BLUE GRAPE MUSIC)

It’s exciting and puzzling, watching punk wiggle in the opening decades of the 21st century.

There is a debate in this past summer’s revamp of Superman, where a very believable Lois Lane, played by the all-gas-no-brakes Rachel Brosnahan, argues that real punk works best when it is rebellious and anti-establishment. Meanwhile, new-school Clark Kent/Superman, played by the Saturday morning cartoon-like David Corenswet, believes that genuine kindness and hope can be the most radical, and therefore punk, act. That wasn’t a narrative I expected fr

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