While director Howard Deutch originally intended the film to primarily contain theme music, Hughes influenced Deutch's decision to use post-punk music throughout the film.
The group was J. Mascis and the Fog, and it featured well-known figures from prepunk, punk and post-punk music.
The band played manic riffs that tripped over one another, clashing to create an apocalyptic post-punk music based more on density than speed.
The current revival of post-punk music and its many offshoots has brought scores of quality reissues of albums that music fans thought they'd never hear on CD.
Fast Forward was a cassette magazine documenting post-punk music in the early 1980s.
Others from the 1970s and 1980s, helped shape New Wave and post-punk music and had a major impact on later genres, including Britpop.
Six Finger Satellite attracted a significant underground following during the 1990s, and are today recognized for their somewhat prophetic fusion of electronic and post-punk music.
The Underground was a music club located in the Allston neighborhood of Boston that featured local, national and international acts performing independent and post-punk music.
The music of NAFT is an amalgam of different genres primarily post-punk and electronic music.
Big Sonic Heaven (Monday-Thursdays 10 pm - midnight) featuring ethereal, electronic, dream pop, shoegaze and post-punk music.
