The best punk rock bands usually have long hair. Bands like The Stooges, Ramones, Black Flag, and seminal Australian punkers Radio Birdman. While somewhat obscure in America, Birdman are legends back ...

“As true now as it was in 1975,” said guitarist-singer Deniz Tek of Australia’s Radio Birdman, introducing the first encore during his May 18th show at New York’s Bowery Electric. Then he pulled the ...

Like Magma, last week’s stars of theartsdesk’s reissues weekly, Australia’s similarly black-clad Radio Birdman favoured a uniform look. And also in common with the idiosyncratic French combo, they had ...

Listen to Radio Birdman’s “We’ve Come So Far (To Be Here Today)” from the new album Zeno Beach. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Sometimes, the right guys get ...

Next up at the BrooklynVegan-presented Music Driven series at Williamsburg’s Nitehawk Cinema is a screening of Descent Into The Maelstrom, the 2017 documentary on legendary Australian punk band Radio ...

There’s no musical similarity between Magma and Radio Birdman, but both sought to portray themselves as united, as if by a cause, and apart from mainstream society. With Radio Birdman, a prime ...

Radio Birdman, one of Australia’s first and best punk bands, broke up in 1978 before they ever got a chance to tour America. Now, the reconstituted Birdman–with four original members, a retooled ...

Australia’s Radio Birdman returns with its first album in nearly 30 years and shows that it has grown more assured. Tunes like “We’ve Come So Far (To Be Here Today),” “You Just Make It Worse” and ...

In 1972 guitarist Deniz Tek left frigid Michigan to attend medical school in sunny Sydney, and wound up doctoring Australian rock-and-roll. Tek's Motor City aggression, learned from bands like the ...

Morning zoo radio shows love mocking celebrities with sarcastic jokes and gag tracks, but what happens when one of those stars has had enough? On Friday morning, rapper Birdman was scheduled to do an ...

Morning zoo radio shows love mocking celebrities with sarcastic jokes and gag tracks, but what happens when one of those stars has had enough? On Friday morning, rapper Birdman was scheduled to do an ...