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Be Your Own Pet's Jemina Pearl
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/
1193975990/be-your-own-pet-jemina-pearl-mommy-interview
Blink-182
San Diego's kings of pop-punk
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/11/
1128131250/blink-182-reunite-tour-
tom-delonge-mark-hoppus-travis-barker
Bikini Kill USA 1990s-2020s
Vivienne Westwood UK
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/
vivienne-westwood
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/dec/03/
vivienne-westwood-cool-earth-environment-fashion
Billy Childish UK
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/may/17/
billy-childish-buff-medways
LCD Soundsystem USA
dance-punk band formed in 2002
https://www.theguardian.com/music/
lcd-soundsystem
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/07/
lcd-soundsystem-announce-final-concert
Essential Logic
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/28/
id-wear-a-mac-on-stage-because-of-all-the-spitting-lora-
logic-on-punk-prayer-and-poly-styrene
Logic UK
born Susan Whitby
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/28/
id-wear-a-mac-on-stage-because-of-all-the-spitting-lora-
logic-on-punk-prayer-and-poly-styrene
Poly Styrene,
the Raincoats and
the Slits UK
- punk's most radical figures
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/aug/08/
gender.arts
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/28/
id-wear-a-mac-o
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/05/
poly-styrenes-inspiring-sensitivity-should-be-the-true-legacy-of-punk
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/aug/08/
gender.arts
Delta 5 UK
Delta 5 emerged
from the same late-'70s
Leeds University art scene
as close friends and collaborators
Gang of Four and the Mekons
— but with three women
and two basses at the forefront,
their brand of angular dance-punk
stood out.
With "Mind Your Own Business"
and subsequent singles like
"You" and "Try"
the band developed a detached,
distinctly feminine style
that was cool, confident and unapologetic
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/16/
1040182294/delta-5s-julz-sale-had-complete-control
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/16/
1040182294/delta-5s-julz-sale-had-complete-control
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/apr/19/
pubs-disco-and-fighting-nazis-how-leeds-nurtured-british-post-punk
Crass UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2009/jul/08/
crass-punk-band-anarchy
Neill Kirby McMillan Jr. USA
1957-2024
known professionally
as Mojo Nixon
American musician and actor
best known for his humorous,
irreverent novelty song
"Elvis Is Everywhere",
which was an alternative staple
on MTV.
His style could generally
be defined as psychobilly,
a musical genre which blends
rockabilly with punk rock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Mojo_Nixon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Mojo_Nixon
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/
arts/music/mojo-nixon-dead.html
Eric "Rick" Froberg USA 1968-2023
pseudonyms Rick Fork and Rick Farr
strident frontman
with US post-hardcore bands
Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes,
Pitchfork and Obits
The singer and guitarist was acclaimed
for pairing the immediacy of punk
with inventive playing
and unselfconsciously
impassioned singing
that would influence the emo subgenre
of the 1990s onwards.
Drive Like Jehu’s 1994 album Yank Crime
featured 10-minute songs,
choppy rhythms and glacial tempos
alongside the usual punk energy,
and it has long been regarded
as one of the key documents
of the US punk underground,
while Hot Snakes’ more raw
and straightforward sound
stretched across four acclaimed albums.
Froberg was also a successful visual artist
who created energetic pop art cover designs
for his own releases
as well as those by Reis’s band
Rocket From the Crypt.
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/02/
1185707046/rick-froberg-appreciation-hot-snakes-drive-like-jehu-punk
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/02/
1185707046/rick-froberg-appreciation-hot-snakes-drive-like-jehu-punk
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/02/
rick-froberg-acclaimed-post-hardcore-frontman-for-drive-like-jehu-and-more-
dies-aged-55
Glenn Michael Lockett USA
1951-2023
influential record producer who,
working under the name Spot,
helped define the jet-turbine sound
of American punk rock in the 1980s,
recording groundbreaking albums
by Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen
and many others,
(...)
As the in-house producer for SST
from 1979 to 1985,
Mr. Lockett controlled
the mixing board
on landmark recordings
that helped bring American punk
from deafening gigs
in garages and basements
to the mainstream
— the college-radio mainstream,
at least.
He produced or engineered
more than 100 albums for SST,
including classics like
Black Flag’s “Damaged” (1981),
Descendents’
“Milo Goes to College” (1982),
Meat Puppets’ first album (1982),
Minutemen’s
“What Makes a Man Start Fires?” (1982)
and Hüsker Dü’s “Zen Arcade” (1984).
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/
arts/music/spot-record-producer-dead.html
Between 1979 and 1985,
Glen Lockett,
the producer and engineer
credited as Spot,
captured the first generation
of American hardcore punk bands
— Black Flag, Minutemen,
Descendents, Saccharine Trust
and more —
as they came screaming and flailing
from South Bay beach cities
outside Los Angeles.
The house producer
for the standard-bearing independent
punk label SST Records,
Lockett sculpted hardcore’s
hyper-fast and caustic sound
with a documentarian’s ear.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/
arts/music/glen-spot-lockett-songs.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/15/
self-belief-and-gelatinous-noise-
the-greatest-work-of-late-punk-hero-glen-spot-lockett
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/
arts/music/spot-record-producer-dead.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/
arts/music/glen-spot-lockett-songs.html
Kimberly Dianne Shattuck USA 1963-2019
Kim Shattuck
guitarist,
singer and songwriter
of The Muffs,
The Pandoras
and The Coolies
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/03/
766780466/kim-shattuck-an-enduring-presence-in-l-a-punk-dead-at-56
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/03/
766780466/kim-shattuck-an-enduring-presence-in-l-a-punk-
dead-at-56
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/
arts/music/kim-shattuck-muffs-dead.html
Martin Thau USA 1938-2014
music executive who was a catalyst
for some of the most influential rock acts
of New York in the 1970s,
including the New York Dolls,
the Ramones and Suicide
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/
arts/music/marty-thau-manager-in-early-new-york-punk-scene-dies-at-75.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/
arts/music/marty-thau-manager-in-early-new-york-punk-scene-dies-at-75.html
X-Ray Spex UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2017/apr/28/
my-mum-the-punk-pioneer-
poly-styrenes-daughter-remembers-the-x-ray-spex-leader
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/apr/26/
poly-styrene-obituary
Wilko Johnson UK
1947-2022
punk pioneer
Known later
as an actor on “Game of Thrones,”
he helped lay the foundation
for a 1970s rock revolution
on England’s pub circuit.
(...)
searing yet stoical guitarist
for the British band Dr. Feelgood,
whose ferociously minimalist fretwork
served as an early influence
for punk-rock luminaries in the 1970s,
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/
arts/music/wilko-johnson-dead.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/
wilko-johnson
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/
arts/music/wilko-johnson-dead.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/24/
wilko-johnson-dr-feelgood-tribute-cancer-70s-rock
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/23/
wilko-johnson-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/23/
wilko-johnson-dies-aged-75
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/10/
wilko-johnson-interview-ive-got-a-future
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/12/
julien-temple-wilko-johnson-sxsw-medieval-saint
Marianne Joan
Elliott-Said UK 1957-2011
stage name Poly
Styrene,
best known as the frontwoman
with
1970s punk group X-Ray Spex
https://www.theguardian.com/music/
poly-styrene
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/apr/26/
poly-styrene-obituary
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/01/
arts/music/poly-styrene-i-am-a-cliche-documentary.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/mar/05/
poly-styrene-i-am-a-cliche-review-x-ray-spex-singer-film
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/05/
poly-styrenes-inspiring-sensitivity-should-be-the-true-legacy-of-punk
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2017/apr/28/
my-mum-the-punk-pioneer-
poly-styrenes-daughter-remembers-the-x-ray-spex-leader
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/arts/music/
poly-styrene-brash-frontwoman-of-x-ray-spex-dies-at-53.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/apr/26/
poly-styrene-obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/26/poly-styrene-dies-aged-53
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/apr/26/
poly-styrene-x-ray-spex?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/23/poly-styrene-interview
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/dec/04/punk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/aug/08/gender.arts
the Seeds USA
psychedelic protopunk band
Sky Saxon (Richard Elvern Marsh) 1946-2009
The raucous sound
of Sky Saxon's band the Seeds
made them a local phenomenon
in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s,
but few could have predicted
that Saxon would go on
to become his own one-man
cult.
After disappearing
into a religious commune during the 70s,
Saxon (...) bounced back
to reassert his credentials
as one of the founding fathers of garage rock.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jun/29/
sky-saxon-obituary?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jun/29/
sky-saxon-obituary?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/
arts/music/27saxon.html
Thursday USA
American post-hardcore band
formed in New Brunswick, New
Jersey
in 1997.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Thursday_(band)
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/15/
1244466419/8-tracks-thursday-nia-archives-bbymutha-daniel-bachman
Eric Goulden,
known as Wreckless Eric UK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Wreckless_Eric
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/aug/10/
artsfeatures
NOFX USA
punk rock band
formed in Los Angeles in 1983
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
NOFX
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
NOFX_discography
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/
style/nofx-farewell-tour.html
Big Audio Dynamite UK early-80s
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/jan/20/
big-audio-dynamite-clash
Luxury USA
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/06/
738458515/parallel-love-luxury-band-accident-eastern-orthodox-christian-priests
https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/04/08/
397883723/vikings-choice-luxury-you-must-change-your-life
Algebra Mothers USA
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/02/
729102751/algebra-mothers
Germs USA
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jan/17/
lorna-doom-germs
https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/
transcript.php?storyId=476449645 - May 2, 2016
Laura Jane Grace
&
The Devouring Mothers USA
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/01/
661158897/first-listen-laura-jane-grace-the-devouring-mothers-bought-to-rot
Against Me! USA
https://www.npr.org/artists/127482144/
against-me
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/01/
661158897/first-listen-laura-jane-grace-the-devouring-mothers-bought-to-rot
Dickie Hammond 1965-2015
one of British punk rock’s
most gifted and revered guitarists
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/
punk-is-beautiful-dickie-hammond-1965-2015/
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/
punk-is-beautiful-dickie-hammond-1965-2015/
Slow Faction UK
https://slowfaction.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-brixton
https://louderthanwar.com/
slow-faction-heavy-manners-album-review/
The Pigs UK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Pigs
Suicide USA 1970s-2010s
Alan Bermowitz
known
professionally as Alan Vega 1938-2016
Alan Vega in 1981.
Sacred Bones Records will release
a series of albums containing work he left behind
after his
death.
Alan Vega Left a Robust Vault.
The Excavation Begins With a New Album.
The Suicide singer died in 2016.
Now his wife and musical partner, Liz Lamere,
is releasing
“Mutator,”
an album the duo made in the mid-90s.
NYT
April 15, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/
arts/music/alan-vega-mutator-vault.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Suicide_(band)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Martin_Rev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Alan_Vega
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/
arts/music/alan-vega-mutator-vault.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/
arts/design/alan-vega-ignored-the-art-world-it-wont-return-the-favor.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/
arts/music/popcast-dissecting-the-legacy-of-alan-vega-and-suicide.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2016/07/18/
486474044/remembering-punk-pioneer-alan-vega
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/18/
alan-vega-obituary
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/18/
arts/music/alan-vega-punk-music-pioneer-and-artist-dies-at-78.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/23/
arts/music-of-suicide-duo-an-affirmation-of-life.html
The Undertones Northern Ireland 1970s-2010s
The Go-Go's USA
‘The time of my life’ …
(from left) Kathy Valentine, Jane Wiedlin,
Gina Schock,
Charlotte Caffey and Belinda Carlisle.
Photograph: Paul Natkin
Getty Images
The Go-Go's Jane Wiedlin on the birth of LA punk:
'I wrote
lyrics at work on crystal meth'
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/01/
jane-wiedlin-go-gos-la-punk-scene-los-angeles
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/05/
898998568/how-the-go-gos-perfected-pop-punk
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/01/
jane-wiedlin-go-gos-la-punk-scene-los-angeles
https://www.npr.org/2011/06/12/
137127044/the-go-gos-still-going
The Pogues UK
hane MacGowan aged 19,
as editor of punk rock magazine
Bondage
in his office at London.
Photograph: Sydney O’Meara
Getty Images
Shane MacGowan’s art: in
pictures
Shane MacGowan’s, lead singer
of the Pogues,
produced art throughout his
rollercoaster musical career.
Here, his wife Victoria Clarke
has added context
to the captions with anecdotes
and insight into the history
behind the art
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/oct/23/
shane-macgowans-art-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/music/
the-pogues
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/oct/23/
shane-macgowans-art-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/14/
shane-macgowan-60-musical-legacy-pogues
The Damned UK
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/apr/08/
sheila-rock-punk-the-clash-siouxsie-sioux-pictures-gallery
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jun/13/
30-minutes-with-the-damned-drummer-rat-scabies-interview-chris-millar
The Stranglers UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/
thestranglers
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/aug/31/
heretics-ostracised-stranglers-fights-drugs-finally-growing-up
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/02/
the-stranglers-how-we-made-european-female
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/10/
punk-bands-uk-archive-1977
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/12/
stranglers-40-years-fights-drugs-ufos
The Associates (or simply Associates)
UK
‘A febrile cocktail of sex, drugs, chaos,
breathtaking good looks and rampant creativity’
… Alan Rankine of the Associates pictured right,
in 1980.
Photograph: David Corio
Getty Images
Alan Rankine was the maestro of the Associates’ post-punk pop
– and an architect of indie
As the multi-instrumentalist musical force
behind the Scottish art-pop band,
and later as a producer and label boss,
Rankine was an adventurous, experimental, inspirational figure
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/04/
alan-rankine-the-associates-architect-of-indie
formed in Dundee in 1979
by singer Billy Mackenzie
and guitarist Alan Rankine
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/04/
alan-rankine-the-associates-architect-of-indie
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/03/
alan-rankine-of-the-associates-dies-aged-64
GBH UK
(originally known as
Charged GBH)
punk rock band
formed in 1978
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBH_(band)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/21/
midlands-punk-discharge-gbh-clay
Discharge UK
hardcore punk
band formed in 1977
in Stoke-on-Trent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discharge_(band)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/21/
midlands-punk-discharge-gbh-clay
Hüsker Dü USA
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/05/
547854997/first-listen-husker-du-savage-young-du
Dead Kennedys USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Dead_Kennedys
The Erasers
USA 1970s
Pere Ubu and Devo USA
Booji Boy finds pretty pictures, 1977.
Mark Mothersbaugh, in his alter ego as Booji Boy,
shops at the
Wharf
Photograph: Ruby Ray
Kalifornia Kool:
San Francisco punk culture in the 70s and 80s – in pictures
Photographer Ruby Ray found herself
at the epicentre of a
movement
in late-70s San Francisco and started to capture the bands,
artists and writers who defined it.
In a new book, Ruby Ray: Kalifornia Kool,
her greatest shots have been assembled,
opening up ‘a portal to a mythic and frenzied scene’
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http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/14/
clevelands-early-punk-pioneers-ohio
Pere Ubu and Devo USA
Cleveland's early punk pioneers
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/may/09/
kalifornia-kool-san-francisco-punk-culture
Doctor of
Madness UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/19/
doctors-of-madness-punk
The Newton Neurotics
UK
formed in Harlow, Essex, England,
in
1979.
In the 1980s
the Neurotics recorded John Peel sessions
for BBC Radio
1, released
a critically lauded debut
album,
Beggars Can Be Choosers,
and saw their third single,
Kick
Out the Tories, become an anthem
as they played an
exhausting schedule
of benefit gigs
throughout the
1984-85 miners’ strike.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/24/
colin-dredd-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/sep/05/
kick-out-the-newtown-neurotics-story-review-
punk-rockers-tale-takes-us-back-to-the-80s
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/24/
colin-dredd-obituary
The Slits UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/24/
how-we-made-cut-the-slits
Subway Sect UK
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/apr/08/
sheila-rock-punk-the-clash-siouxsie-sioux-pictures-gallery
The Moors
Murderers UK
founded in 1977
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/apr/08/
sheila-rock-punk-the-clash-siouxsie-sioux-pictures-gallery
Derek Jarman 's
dystopian satire > Jubilee 1977
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/jul/20/
popandrock4
Skins and Punks
by Gavin Watson UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2008/nov/03/
skins-punks-gavin-watson?picture=339283258
USA > America's west coast / California punks
UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/nov/14/
california-punk
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