Tag Archives: Punk/New Wave

Tommy Tutone were an early-’80s power pop music group led by vocalist Tommy Heath and guitarist Jim Keller. The group’s initial one, 1980’s “Angel State No,” scraped underneath from the American Best 40, yet it had been 1981’s “867-5309/Jenny” that delivered the group to the very best from the graphs. …

Riding the okay range between obnoxious skatepunk and sodden steel, Murphy’s Law arrived of NY City’s mid-’80s hardcore scene and created in Astoria, Queens, around vocalist Jimmy Gestapo, however the group’s frequently moving lineup also included guitarists Todd Youth, Alex Morris, and Jack port Flanagan; bassists Pete Martinez, Chuck Valle, …

There have been few punk-era, major-label performers simply because intensely creative and controversial simply because Tom Robinson. Slicing his tooth with folk-rockers Café Culture (who released a Ray Davies-produced record on the top Kink’s Konk label in 1975), Robinson roared in to the limelight in 1978 with an excellent one …

The Mumps were probably one of the most obscure, but distinctive, NY bands from the past due ’70s, performing an absurdly theatrical fusion of pop, punk, and glam rock and roll. Led by vocalist Lance Loud, the group’s music was an affectionate satire of ’70s kitsch tradition, predating the comparable …

Part performance artwork piece, component synth pop/post-punk/new influx innovators, the Products practically ruled the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA picture in the past due ’70s and early ’80s before flirting with unlikely mainstream achievement in 1983. Frequently cited among the pioneers of synth punk alongside mythical Los Angeles-based group the Screamers, …

Shaped in Lyon around Kent (guitars, vocals), Jello (guitars), Mickey Treat (bass) and Phil Pressing (drums), Starshooter was perhaps one of the most well-known bands to create punk rock and roll in France, launching “Pin-Up Blonde,” their initial single, as soon as 1977. Unlike many punk rings, Starshooter was in …

Pennsylvania-native punk pioneer Adam Goren is among the many unconventional musicians of his period. Armed with just his “bundle,” the innovative musician is well known for his amusing, lively synth pop punk tunes and outrageous rhymes about unconventional topics. Adam Goren, as his alter ego persona Atom, writes, performs, and …

Mr. Bungle’s audio and approach is normally a unique mixture of the experimental, the abstract, as well as the absurd (quite simply, the finer stuff in lifestyle). Everything started in 1985, in a little California town called Eureka. The group (bassist Trevor Dunn, drummer Danny Heifetz, alto saxophonist Theo Lengyel, …

Guitarist Vic DiCara, alongside past Resurrection vocalist Robert “Rasaraja” Seafood, was the traveling engine behind 108, forming the East Coast-based music group in 1992. DiCara once was making waves within the Western Coast with famous hardcore metallic group Inside Out, which also presented future Trend Against the device frontman Zack …

Among the 1st hardcore metal rings to embrace the vegan-straight edge viewpoint, Morning Again was a throwback towards the mid-80’s hardcore picture having a vicious loss of life metal edge. Created in Florida in the tail end of 1996, guitarist John Wylie shuffled through many lineups as he managed his …