Released 40 years ago today
Back to the Known, the second EP by American punk rock band Bad Religion, featuring the track Frogger
Bad Religion - Frogger
Released 40 years ago today
Back to the Known, the second EP by American punk rock band Bad Religion, featuring the track Frogger
Bad Religion - Frogger
38 years ago today
Cro-Mags at City Gardens, Trenton, New Jersey, April 12, 1987.
Photo by Ken Salerno
40 years ago today
Back to the Known is the second EP by American punk rock band Bad Religion, released on this day in 1985, and it's a return to their punk roots.
Can you imagine this band in these times?
Dead Kennedys – California Uber Alles – Official Music Video
49 years ago
The Runaways' pose for a portrait on the beach in April, 1976 in Los Angeles, California.
Photo rights by Michael Ochs
Happy Birthday Lee Ving, frontman of the punk band Fear, born on April 10, 1950, in Philadelphia.
FEAR – I Don't Care About You (The Decline of Western Civilization)
Happy birthday to Fred Smith, original bassist for Blondie, and far more famously, bassist for Television when Richard Hell left the band, born on this day in 1948 in New York City.
Lynn Goldsmith
Social Distortion Live Peer Records, Anaheim, CA, USA 4th September 1983
Happy Birthday to Lee James Jude Capallero aka Lee Ving, American musician and frontman of the Los Angeles based hardcore punk band Fear, born April 10, 1950, Philadelphia.
Photo by Edward Colver
One of the most underrated all-female punk band
40 years ago
The Pandoras - Pomona, California - April 1985
Paula Pierce, Melanie Vammen, Karen Blankfeld & Kim Shattuck
Released 48 years ago today
The Capital Radio EP is The Clash's first EP. It was given away free by NME to anyone who sent the red sticker of their debut album to the magazine.
Three years ago today
In memory Chris Bailey, Australian singer, songwriter, musician and co-founder of punk rock band the Saints, died in Haarlem on April 9, 2022, aged 65
Gus Stewart
48 years ago
David Vanian of The Damned at the second of four appearances at CBGB, New York City, April 8, 1977.
They were the first British punk band to play live dates in the US.
Ebet Roberts
Released 48 years ago today
The eponymous debut studio album by the English punk rock band The Clash, titled Garage Land (both in the UK and US versions of the final song)
The Clash – Garageland Live 1977
Remembering Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren
Vivienne Westwood
April 8, 1941 - December 29, 2022
Malcolm McLaren
January 22, 1946 - April 8, 2010
Happy Birthday to Donita Sparks, American singer, guitarist, songwriter and co-founder of the punkrock / grunge band L7, born on this day in 1963, Chicago, Illinois
Photo by Dave Willis
48 years ago today
Released on this day in 1977, the eponymous debut studio album by English punk rock band The Clash.
It is widely celebrated as one of the greatest punk albums of all time
Released 44 years ago
Adolescents, the eponymous debut studio album by American punk rock band Adolescents, featuring the track Amoeba
Adolescents - Amoeba (Official Music Video)
44 years ago
3 Hits from Hell is a 7" EP by American punk rock band The Misfits, released in April 1981
Glenn Danzig – vocals
Jerry Only – bass
Doyle – guitar on Horror Hotel and Ghouls Night Out
Arthur Googy – drums
Bobby Steele – guitar on London Dungeon