I'm still waiting for Cavemanpunk.

Try anything on the Rip Off label.

MUMMIES FTW

@BloggyMcBlogBlog: Are we far enough ahead to have nuclearpunk?

is it all retro-pseudopunk yet?

DepressionPunk doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. How about flapperpunk?

maybe the band "grave 45" will make a comeback.-blurey

i hope the band "grave 45" makes a comeback.-blurey

@extracrispy: Aren't flappers the 20s? Maybe it should be hobopunk.

I think "The Squirrel Nut Zippers," "The Holy Modal Rounders," The whole "Old Time String Band Revival" movement, and a bunch of white blues guys beat them to it, but always room for more..

And St. Leon of Redbone.

Carry on.

@braak: nonfeasancepunk

BoingBoing just broke and Cory Doctorow's Steam Powered Hot Air Balloon is being stripped for parts.

damn it, i had a Cory Doctorow reference made and was told my comment was a duplicate. nuts.

@mitchel_stevens:
stupid modern technology!

TinPanAlleyPunk?

BreadLinePunk?

WPAPunk?

i think depression punk sounds awesome. i would love to see a movie or something where prohibition era gangsters have to deal with zombies, cthulhu, obscure magic, etc.

So.. emopunk. Been there, done that. It doesn't matter if it's retro, it's too jaded.

@braak: Damn, I was thinking depression was the 20s. Heavy sigh. Fail.

Anything that promotes the idea of depression should be avoided. This sort of thing is energy-draining-vampiral sludge. The future is what you make it, so just work toward a better one. This country needs a good enema--that'll make it all better. I suggest we start with Washington D.C., and the first, biggest, nastiest turd to get cleaned out is named George Bush.

The Depression isn't exactly known for major technological innovations the way the Victorian Era is. Unless you're going to do a gritty, period Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers, I'm just not seeing it. (Besides, "The Daleks in New York" sucked).

@SeanOHara: True, but this ([www.theregister.co.uk]) was pretty good.

@braak: BoxcarPunk

Why Depressionpunk? It's not called Victorianpunk.

Better would be Dieselpunk or Tubepunk.

Better still would be to drop the damn -punk suffix and just appreciate the cool shit from the past without making a new case for your Windows PC or hot gluing watch parts to a leather coat from the thrift store.

Lots of stuff happening in the depression, technologically speaking. The big deal was radio as a way of influencing and controlling the masses. Hitler was a radio phenom. Later he used a radio teletype system to micromanage army units.

Radio also led to the first radoio preachers, salesmen and rabble rousers.

Aviation, automobiles, especially racing, popular use of machine guns,(Think Bonnie and Clyde) and the golden age of phonograph records and well as talkie movies, the first jet engines, rockets, the first experiments into computing, all sorts of fun stuff.

"O Brother Where Art Thou?" Is depressionpunkish.

And i forgot, the Golden Age of Science Fiction

@gfburke: Hear, hear! Enough with the "-punk" already!

Oh, and from the looks of it, it's called "Goth."

@zeppelined: What is it with Daleks and naked ladies?

They have 20 listeners on last.fm, so :/

A lot of us gamers refer to the 1930s as "The Pulp Era."

But Pulp-punk doesn't work to well.

I like the music. I hate the rob-zombie-esque death metal cliches.

@gfburke: There is only one band that I know of that can rightfully wear the crown of Victorianpunk - that is the late, great Stiffs, Inc.

If you don't know, go ask somebody. (Seriously, they're amazing)