49 years ago today
Talking Heads supporting The Ramones make their stage debut at CBGB, New York City, June 20, 1975
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35 years ago today
Energy is the only studio album by the American ska punk band Operation Ivy, released on this day in 1989.
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Which album had the greatest impact on punk rock history? 👇
The Clash - debut album
Ramones - debut album
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Another?
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Fugazi, if they didn't exist, this band would urgently need to be invented
Here are their publications between 1988 and 2014
Any favorite?
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Which 4 punk rock musicians would you put in this picture?
Ian MacKaye
Henry Rollins
Dee Dee Ramone
Jello Biafra
Btw - > I would blow up Rushmore and give it back to the natives 🙂
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Post 10 bands you've been obsessed with some point in your life.
Here are mine (in no particular order)
Dead Kennedys
Bad Brains
Black Flag
Fugazi
Minor Threat
The Sweet
T-Rex
Deep Purple
Judas Priest
Ramones
All releases of the hardcore punk band Black Flag
Due to the band's many line ups, very different works have been created in terms of style and tempo
What is their masterpiece?
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In memory of Ariane Daniela Forster aka Ari Up, founding member and singer of The Slits, who died much too young on October 20, 2010 at the age of 48 in Los Angeles while fighting breast cancer.
Photo by Mick Mercer
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36 years ago, Fugazi play their first live show at the Wilson Center in Washington,D.C.
Here is a later appearance
Fugazi - Waiting Room (Live Wilson Center 1988)
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50 years ago
Johnny Thunders and David Johansen of The New York Dolls in front of a promo poster of the New York Dolls' debut album. Los Angeles, September 1973.
Photo by Bob Gruen
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Released 46 years ago
Blank Generation, the debut album by Richard Hell and the Voidoids, featuring the title track 'Blank Generation'
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation
CBGB 1977
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40 years ago today
Mick Jones, lead guitarist for The Clash, was fired by the other three members who claimed he had "deviated" from the group's original idea
The beginning of the end of The Clash was decided
📸 Steve Rapport
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46 years ago
Blank Generation is the debut studio album by American punk rock band Richard Hell and the Voidoids, released in September 1977.
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37 years ago today
The Age of Quarrel is the debut album by the New York hardcore punk band Cro-Mags released on this day in 1986
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45 years ago
„“Rip him to shreds”: fans of the Dead Kennedys getting a piece of Jello Biafra, back in August 1978
Photos by Bruce Conner
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#knowyourroots
49 years ago
Patti Smith/Television - early punk poster advertising a series of shows at Max’s Kansas City, August 1974
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37 years ago
Black Flag first broke up in 1986. Here are the lineups through 1986.
Which lineup was your favourite?
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46 years ago today
(Left to right) Iggy Pop, Nancy (back), Cyrinda Foxe and David Bowie at a Patti Smith concert, August 31, 1976, Lower Manhattan Club, New York
Photo by Bob Gruen
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Inspired by the Notting Hill Riots of August 30, 1976
White Riot - The Clash
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44 years ago today
Exene Cervenka and John Doe of X at Stardust Ballroom, Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, August 30, 1979.
Photo by Jenny Lens
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