73th birthday for this iconic Lady π
Happy Birthday to Kim Althea Gordon, American musician, singer, songwriter, visual artist, and actress, born on this day in 1953, Rochester, New York.
πΈ Chris Sikich
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45 years ago today
The Birthday Party released their influential debut album "Prayers on Fire", April 6, 1981
The Album includes the single "Nick the Stripper".
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Released 47 years ago today
Secondhand Day Light, the second studio album by English post-punk band Magazine.
It was released on 30 March 1979 by record label Virgin featuring the track Feed the Enemy
Magazine - Feed the Enemy LIVE 1980
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Happy Birthday to Harley Flanagan, drummer for the New York punk band The Stimulators and co-founder of the New York hardcore punk band Cro-Mags, born on this day in 1967, San Francisco
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48 years ago today
Ari Up of The Slits whacks a skinhead disrupting their gig at the Thames Polytechnic in Calderwood Street, Woolwich.
Taken on March 4, 1978 when The Slits played the venue alongside Penetration and Buzzcocks
πΈ Ray Stevenson
46 years ago today
Patti Smith Group released the album, Easter. It was Smithβs third studio release, and the second album to be attributed to her band, Patti Smith Group.
The album features the singles "Privilege (Set Me Free)" and "Because the Night
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The early Beastie Boys in 1981, fresh from the breakup of The Young Aborigines, with hardcore punk as the ultimate musical genre.
White Shadow β with Kate Schellenbach on drums.
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35 years ago
On January 12, 1991, Fugazi took to the stage in Lafayette Park, right in front of the White House β unthinkable today β to play a relatively short set, thereby expressing her protest against the Gulf War.
Fugazi - Turnover
Buddies π
Joe Strummer with Shane MacGowan and Spider Stacy of The Pogues at the Ritz, New York, November, 1987.
Photo by Ebet Roberts
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2 years ago today
In memory, Shane Patrick MacGowan, former member of the punk band Nipple Erectors, co-founder and lead singer of the Celtic punk band The Pogues, founder of Shane MacGowan and The Popes, died of pneumonia after a long illness.
πΈ Gie Knaeps
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