Happy Birthday East Bay Ray, guitarist and founding member of the Dead Kennedys, born on this day in 1958, Oakland, California
Dead Kennedys - "California Über Alles" - Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco, 1979
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41 years ago today
November 17, 1984: While the Ramones, Black Flag and Minutemen put on a sensational concert at the Palladium, the LAPD prepares to welcome the punks.
Photo by Gary Leonard.
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35 years ago
Women of punk rock, so much energy in one place. 💯
L7 and Lunachicks, CBGB New York City, November 1990.
Photo by Andrea Kusten
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Happy Birthday Raymond John Pepperell aka East Bay Ray, guitarist and founding member of the hardcore punk rock band Dead Kennedys, born on this day in 1958, Oakland, California
📸 John Cuniberti
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46 years ago today
The Jam released their fourth studio album, Setting Sons, November 16, 1979.
It features the single "The Eton Rifles"
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34 years ago today
Bikini Kill – Kathleen Hanna and Kathi Wilcox – performed at St. Stephen’s in Washington, D.C., on November 16, 1991.
Photos: Brad Sigal
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44 years ago today
Damaged is the debut studio album by the American hardcore punk band Black Flag, released on this day in 1981 and became one of the most influential punk rock records of all time,
Cover Art by Edward Colver
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39 years ago today
Licensed to Ill is the debut studio album by the American hip-hop group Beastie Boys, released on November 15, 1986.
With this album, the Beastie Boys (to my dismay) completed their transition from hardcore to hip hop.
Here's the banger single:
You gotta fight for your right (to party).
Released 49 years ago
Crime "Hot Wire My Heart" b/w "Baby You're So Repulsive"
In November of 1976, this debut single by the San Francisco band was the first punk rock single to emerge from the U.S. West Coast
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49 years ago today
Viv Albertine, Steve Severin, Kenny Morris, Sarah Hall and Siouxsie Sioux before and during the Sex Pistols concert, Notre Dame de France, November 15, 1976
Photos by John Ingham
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42 years ago
City Baby's Revenge is the second studio album by the British street punk band Charged G.B.H, released November 1983 by Clay Records
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45 years ago today
Guitarist Viv Altertine, vocalist Ari Up, drummer Budgie and bassist Tessa Pollitt of The Slits perform on stage at The Channel in Boston, Massachusetts, November 14, 1980
📸 Michael Grecco
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51 years ago
Patti Smith and Iggy Pop and James Williamson of The Stooges in November 1974 backstage at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles, California.
Credit: Michael Ochs Archives
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52 years ago
The New York Dolls performing "Looking For a Kiss" at The Old Grey Whistle Test, November 1973
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45 years ago today
Wendy O Williams / Plasmatics performing on stage in Boston, Massachusetts, November 13, 1980
Photos by Michael Grecco
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33 years ago
Crosses all music genres and was released in November 1992
Rage Against the Machine: Killing In The Name
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Released 43 years ago
Back from Samoa, the debut full-length album by the American punk rock band Angry Samoans, featuring the track ⬇️
Angry Samoans - "Time Has Come Today"
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50 years ago 🔥
The young band Blondie
Gary Valentine, Clem Burke, Debbie Harry, Chris Stein at Mother’s, November 1975.
Photo by Paul Zone
43 years ago
Back from Samoa is the debut full-length album by the American punk rock band Angry Samoans, released in November 1982
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Remembering Julian Keith Levene, English musician who was a founding member of both the Clash and Public Image Ltd (PiL).
Levene died from complications of liver cancer at his home in Norfolk on 11 Nov. 2022, aged 65
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