In memory of Alan Bermowitz aka Alan Vega, American singer and visual artist, punk pioneer and founder of the electronic proto-punk duo Suicide, passed away in his sleep on July 16, 2016 at the age of 78.
📸 Frank Perry
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Happy birthday to Marc Steven Bell aka Marky Ramone, second drummer of the punk rock band The Ramones and member of Richard Hell and The Voidoids and Misfits, born on this day in 1952, Brooklyn, New York City
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42 years ago
Singer Deno with the anarcho-punk band Dirt from London in July 1982.
The band often played / supported the other anarchists Crass on whose label they also released their Records.
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10 years have passed, some events seem much shorter ago
In memory Thomas Erdelyi aka Tommy Ramone, Hungarian drummer with the Ramones, died at his home in New York City on this day in 2014.
📸 Paul Natkin
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Pink Turns To Blue is a song by Hüsker Dü that was released on their double album Zen Arcade.
It describes a young woman who becomes addicted to drugs, takes an overdose and dies.
The song will never be released as a single, but for me it is still a masterpiece by the band
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53 years ago today
Young rioters fleeing the British Army during the Troubles in Derry, Northern Ireland, on July 8, 1971.
Photo by Don McCullin
In 1980, Killing Joke used this photo as the cover of their debut album
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42 years ago
Sound & Fury is the first studio album by the hardcore punk band Youth Brigade, released July 1982.
It was followed in 1983 by an album of the same name that included re-recorded versions of some tracks.
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