Even the people that hated Clockcleaner, the deceased punk band of Puerto Rico Flowers’ progenitor John Sharkey, still seem to have some affection. There aren’t a whole lot of bands, punk or otherwise, that can pull off that kind of belligerence and wide-target fuck you ability. Anyhow, RIP: Sharkey moved to Australia and started making molasses-slow, funeral-black goth-wave music as PRF, which suits his low-register vocals like ashes to an urn. Also: This is the one date PRF is playing in North America this fall or in the foreseeable future. (Michael Byrne)