The Soft Pink Truth

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Performs on Monday, Nov. 22

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• Drew Daniel
• Marshall
• The Soft Pink Truth
• Minor Threat (Musical Group)
• Punk Rock

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What's punker than punk? Well, duh: an album of electro-pop covers of punk songs -- nothing pisses off a purist like swapping Marshall stacks for sampled blips and bleeps. But then, Drew Daniel -- ex-punk rocker, current Björk collaborator and Matmos member, and button-pusher behind the Soft Pink Truth -- has never let others' prejudices get in the way of his campy antics. (When he performs, he projects a video of gay porn with all the sex removed, leaving only stilted narrative scraps -- also very punk.) On the surface, much of Do You Want New Wave ...-- which takes its title from the Minutemen classic -- plays out like exceptionally produced dance music perfect for apolitical dance floors anywhere. Rudimentary Peni's "Media Friend" is a rough-edged slab of programmed funk; Swell Maps' "Real Shocks" outdoes Chicken Lips' death-disco groove; and even Minor Threat's straight-edge anthem "Out of Step" is re-engineered for a context in which every pleasure is chemically centered. But just when you're ready to slide into a long, thoughtless groove, Daniel slips in a line like "Jesus was a cock-sucking Jew," from Nervous Gender's "Confession," upending everything. Punk's not dead, it's just digitized.