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Something Fierce

Something Brutal is a three-piece punk/pop music group from Houston, Tx whose music combines the audio and attitude of first-wave 1977 punk with a power and perspective that’s thoroughly modern, updating the assault from the Clash as well as the Buzzcocks for the 21st hundred years. Something Fierce had been …

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Lester Bangs

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 …

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Dolly Mixture

This pop threesome of Debsey Wykes (vocals, bass), Hester Smith (drums), and Rachel Bor (guitar) formed a sharp contrast against the ruling post-punk and angst accumulating in London around 1979 with bands like Gang of Four getting heralded in the favorite press as the best things. Originally, Dolly Mix was …

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Stiff Little Fingers

Through the first wave of U.K. punk rock and roll, plenty of rings sang in regards to a globe full of assault and chaos, but Stiff Small Fingers didn’t need to imagine a dystopian globe — surviving in Belfast, North Ireland on the elevation of “The Issues,” law enforcement brutality …

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The Undertones

The Undertones slam-bang punk-pop drew its strength in one inescapable fact: you didn’t need a secret handshake to take pleasure from it. John and Damian O’Neill mated infectious acoustic guitar hooks to ’60s garage area, ’70s glam rock and roll, and Feargal Sharkey’s personal vocal quaver. Those characteristics came together …

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The Briefs

Looking such as a new wave music group sharply dressed up in skinny ties, bleached locks, and plastic shades, retro-punks the Briefs blasted onto the Seattle music picture within the latter 1 / 2 of 1999. The charmingly snotty quartet got sonic cues from past due-’70s United kingdom punk and …

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Cause Co-Motion!

NEW YORK quartet Trigger Co-Motion! were created within the mid-2000s by vocalist/guitarist Arno, business lead guitarist Alex, drummer Jock and bass participant Liam. The band’s make of high energy, lo-fi post-punk affected pop owed very much to bands just like the Pastels, Tv Personalities, and Wire, while controlling to sound …

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The Monroes

Founded by keyboard player Eric Denton and bass player Bob “Monroe” Davis, the NORTH PARK quintet the Monroes mildly flirted with success because the consequence of the infectious one “What Do All of the People Understand.” Using a lineup which was curved out by vocalist Jesus Ortiz, guitarist Rusty Jones, …

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The Only Ones

Led with the raffish and slightly scuzzy romance-obsessed Peter Perrett, the only real Ones were among the punk era’s most underrated rings. Much less confrontational because the Sex Pistols, simply because politically indulgent because the Clash, or simply because stripped-down because the Ramones, the only real Ones performed not-so-fast guitar …

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The Rezillos

Although frequently aligned using the punk motion, the Rezillos’ (later on referred to as the Revillos) irreverent glam rock image and affection for campy girl group iconography arranged them distinctly aside from their peers. Created in 1976 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the group was a liquid and highly casual collective focused …

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