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Among Boston’s most popular rings during the initial influx of punk, without doubt in huge part because of vocalist Barb Kitson’s commanding tone of voice and punky-starlet looks, the Thrills formed in 1977 out of the loose confederation of community scenesters. Kitson, a DJ in the important college train station …

Offering a fascinating mixture of new wave and arena rock and roll, Sumner was a little-known strap that was active on the Los Angeles/Hollywood rock and roll scene in the late ’70s and early ’80s. Sumner was shaped in L.A. in 1978, when business lead singer/tempo guitarist Sumner Mering (who …

A satirical Bavarian fusion group who specialized in putting irreverent lyrics to traditional music. After humiliating the Bavarian Leader on tv by performing a characteristically off-color tune, the group discovered themselves prohibited from local mass media and quietly transformed names to be Well Baum. Regular of their iconoclastic taste may …

Lindsay Anderson was a 17-year-old trumpet participant when she joined the Manchester-based music group Stockholm Monsters in 1982. She performed in the band’s 1984 Stock Records debut record, Alma Mater, but still left immediately after its discharge to go after her college research.

The popular Uk ska-pop band Madness split up in 1986, but the majority of its personnel hardly ever quite seemed content to call it quits. In 1988 four of its seven associates formed a fresh band, that they differentiated from the initial only with the addition of the term “The” …

Washington, DC-based, brand-new influx/power pop clothing 4 Out of 5 Doctors shaped in the later ’70s across the abilities of guitarist/keyboardist Jeff Severson, guitarist George Pittaway, bassist/vocalist Cal Everett, and drummer Tom Ballew. Though they just documented two albums, an eponymous 1980 debut and 1982’s Second Opinion, the music group’s …

Nearly everyone acquainted with the work from the later, great Lester Bangs (his worn-out pulmonary and respiratory systems turn off in 1982 at age 33) knows him like a rock journalist for Creem, Rolling Stone, Village Voice, and countless additional magazines. Even though his crucial acumen, perspicacity, and acerbic wit …

Actually undergrounds have their very own undergrounds (sub-undergrounds?) of performers who will hardly ever quite make it also towards the “total unidentified” stage. Although Jimi Lalumia’s ever mutating support music group included, at onetime or another, such punk luminaries as Johnny Thunders, Cherry Vanilla, and Jayne State, the group just …

The composer’s earlier albums, Gay Name Game (1979) and All-American Boy (1982) are among the initial independent gay recordings in the short history of the genre. Being a single performer, Weinberg provides made an appearance at cabarets and university campuses all around the U.S. 1995 noticed the tenth wedding anniversary …

Epitomizing the cheesy part — an enormous cut of Velveeta, actually — of ‘80s new wave, the tiny Girls had been two teenagers who required bubblegum to its sugar-sweet limit, composing goofy novelty songs which were either brilliantly satirical or annoyingly stupid, based on your perspective. If Punky Brewster made …