47 years ago
Buzzcocks at Band On The Wall, Manchester May 1977.
Band members were bassist Garth Smith, drummer John Maher, singer and guitarist Pete Shelley and guitarist Steve Diggle.
#knowyourroots
Nick Lowe, Martin Rev (Suicide), Elvis Costello, Oedipus, (started the first punk rock radio show in America), Alan Vega (Suicide), ca 1979
39 years ago today
Portrait of the music group Lords of the New Church at the Metro, Chicago, Illinois, May 22, 1985. Pictured are, from left, Dave Tregunna, Stiv Bators, Nicky Turner, and Brian James
I mentioned Bingo Boys' 2023 record 'Freak Out & Leave' in February, how I was upset I somehow missed it last year. They're from Indianapolis, Indiana and make some incredible catchy, melodic psych-ish garage/punk.
I've been going through their back catalog today and they don't even have bad songs. 🤯
Bingo Boys put out a couple singles this/last year which are unfortunately only on Spotify, but Bandcamp has several of theirs too- ALL good: https://bingoboys.bandcamp.com
an american documentary filmed through 1979 and 1980. The movie is about the Los Angeles punk rock scene and was directed by Penelope Spheeris. In 1981, the LAPD Chief of Police Daryl Gates wrote a letter demanding the film not be shown again in the city.
#NowPlaying a straight up feel good banger of a record from 2023 that you may have noticed already because I never shut the hell up about it last year, Gee Tee's 'Goodnight Neanderthal'
Listening to Jason Loewenstein's 2017 solo record Spooky Action again today as I often do, yknow, just because it's one of the greatest damn albums ever recorded
Happy Birthday to Ron Emory, American rock musician and guitarist for the punk rock band T.S.O.L. (True Sounds of Liberty), born May 20, 1962, Lynwood, California
47 years ago today
In the City, ist the debut studio album by British mod revival/punk rock band The Jam, released on this day in 1977 and featured the hit single and title track 'In the City'
Briefly, I threw some of my favorite Meat Puppets songs on a playlist - that isn't to say there's not songs on MANY of their other LPs and EPs I love, but there's nothing before 1989 here. These are my Meat Puppets go-to LPs. To me, all perfect but one, which is close. In chronological order,
*Monsters (perfect)
*Forbidden Places (perfect)
*Too High to Die (perfect)
*No Joke! (perfect minus a song or two I don't like)
*Sewn Together (perfect)
*Lollipop (perfect)
*Rat Farm (perfect)
*Dusty Notes (perfect)
And this is a 17 song playlist with a lot of my favorites, too - pretty much all from those albums: https://youtu.be/ZLAnAnXziok
43 years ago
Discharge before her performance at the legendary concert at the London Lyceum with Anti-Nowhere Liga, Chron Gen, Anti Pasti and The Exploited, May 1981
38 years ago
Enjoy! is the third album by the American punk rock band the Descendents, the band's final album with guitarist Ray Cooper and only album with bassist Doug Carrion, released in May 1986