40 years ago today
Double Nickels on the Dime is the third album by the punk rock band Minutemen, which was released as a double album on July 3, 1984 and deals, among other things, with the Vietnam War and racism in America
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Zen Arcade will turn 40 on July 3, 2024 (a week from today).
(You just have to triangulate Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life and a Soundblab post to nail down that date)
what a lot of people don't know is that the label, SST had been unable to release music for 2.5 by a lawsuit with unicorn records over a distribution deal with MCA that fell thru, so SST put out Damaged with sticker over MCA logo.
Backlog of material resulted in compacted best moment in indie rock
