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PUNK pioneers The Damned have cancelled a string of shows after a “catastrophic event” at one of their homes. They’ve been ...
The British punk rock group, The Damned, announced that they will have to cancel their tour after a ‘catastrophic event’. The ...
The Damned has had to cancel the last three dates of their U.S. tour as they prepare to celebrate their 50th anniversary next ...
Steve Diggle didn’t really intend to be in Buzzcocks, a band that, along with the Clash, the Sex Pistols, the Jam and the Damned, formed the nucleus of England’s punk explosion four decades ago.
10 Crucial Punk Rock Bands Currently Active. Punk Rock is DEAD? Not according to these guys and girls. ... Today, there is more than just your brand of vanilla British punk on offer, ...
The truth was, punk began in the early ‘70s with the off-center, jagged rock ‘n’ roll efforts of bands such as the New […] To the outside world, punk rock was initially believed to be ...
The Sex Pistols, the English punk rock band formed in London in 1975 who initiated the punk movement in the United Kingdom — and inspired many later punk, post-punk and alternative rock ...
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks Chardine Taylor-Stone and Stephanie Phillips of punk rock band Big Joanie about their album, "Back Home," and about the role of joy and resistance in punk music.
Call it indie, shambling or even "the new wave of new wave," but British punk has reasserted itself every few years since 1976. Young bands regularly emerge with short, fast, disheveled songs like ...
The origins of punk rock have been fought over for years. But one can’t deny that a lot of proto-punk bands were birthed in the heart of America, from The Velvet Underground to The Stooges to ...
The British post-punk band Idles were livestreaming a show — their first performance in 2020 — and discovering they were out of practice. But the group’s outspoken frontman, Joe Talbot, was ...
In the year since its publication, “A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad” has connected me with fellow admirers of Siouxsie and the Banshees ...