47 years ago
Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads with her famous funky Gibson Recorder Bass, live in Dallas, TX about March of 1978

46 years ago today
The Cramps backstage at the Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco, March 14, 1979.

Photos by Chester Simpson

Shonen Punx! "005 Life Experiences" is now up!

https://www.shonenpunx.com/comic/005-life-experiences/

You get early comics this week cuz I'm going to go see French electropunk duo Kap Bambino in L.A this weekend ,

48 years ago
The first all-female punk rock group The Slits made their live debut opening for The Clash at the Harlesden Coloseum, London, March 10 & 11, 1977

Buzzcocks and Subway Sect were also on the bill

Ian Dickson

#music #punks #Nazis

'Recently, the lead singer of Edmonton-based hardcore punk band Vargouille kicked an audience member in the front row who was throwing up Nazi Sieg Heil salutes. '

https://boingboing.net/2025/03/07/anti-fascist-canadian-hardcore-band-shows-how-to-handle-nazis.html

43 years ago
The Bad Brains at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California, March 12, 1982.

Photo by Alison Braun

Hoy Viernes 28 de Febrero tocamos T E R R A P L É N con Delta + + en el CS La Brecha de Vallekas. Es gratis y estáis todos invitados. #concierto #conciertos #ConciertosEnMadrid #punk #punkrock #punks #music #musica #madrid #rock #MadridRock #RockTotal

Ian Mackaye still has the skateboard from the famous Minor Threat photo shoot -1980.

Photo from the Instagram account of skateboarding legend Tony Hawk

Happy Birthday to Henry Lawrence Garfield aka Henry Rollins, American singer of State of Alert, Black Flag and the Rollins Band, born on this day in 1961, Washington DC

Photo by Dan Corrigan

Happy Birthday to Paul D. Hudson aka H.R. (Human Rights), British-American lead singer of the American hardcore punk band Bad Brains, born on this day in 1956, Liverpool, England

Photo by Rusty Moore

The Counterforce Guide to #Mastodon and The Fediverse (for #punks

https://the-counterforce.org/guide-to-mastodon-fediverse/

In 1980, great punk rock albums were released, including my personal all-time favorite by the Dead Kennedy's.

Which is your number 1, or even another album?

Released 48 years ago
Sister Midnight, a pre-single release from Iggy Pop's debut album The Idiot

David Bowie & Iggy Pop Sister Midnight live

Released 43 years ago today
Bad Brains, the eponymous debut studio album by the American hardcore punk band Bad Brains, featuring the fabulous track 'Banned in D.C'

Bad Brains Banned in DC @ CBGB's 1982

47 years ago
'I Am the Fly' is the second single by British punk rock / postpunk band Wire, released February 1978 with 'Ex Lion Tamer' as B-side

50 years ago
Patti Smith first performance at CBGB, New York City, February 1975.

Photo by Allen Tannenbaum

Decades too late, released 16 years ago

Recorded in May 1975 and released in February 2009, ...For the Whole World to See, an Album by proto punk / punk rock band Death.

Happy Birthday to Christene Lee Cervenka aka Exene Cervenka, songwriter and singer for the California punk rock band X, born on this day in 1956, Chicago, Illinois

Photo by Dean Musgrove

These iconic photos were taken 46 years ago today

The Ramones perform at The Agora Ballroom on January 30, 1979 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Photos by Tom Hill

47 years ago
The January 1978 Record Mirror bizarrely described punk pioneer Poly Styrene as a “sex symbol”.

Poly, who fought against all oppression and sexism and abhorred any form of conformism, was certainly not and did not want to be a sex symbol