One of the most underrated all-female punk band

40 years ago
The Pandoras - Pomona, California - April 1985

Paula Pierce, Melanie Vammen, Karen Blankfeld & Kim Shattuck

Released 48 years ago today

The Capital Radio EP is The Clash's first EP. It was given away free by NME to anyone who sent the red sticker of their debut album to the magazine.

48 years ago
David Vanian of The Damned at the second of four appearances at CBGB, New York City, April 8, 1977.

They were the first British punk band to play live dates in the US.

Ebet Roberts

Released 48 years ago today
The eponymous debut studio album by the English punk rock band The Clash, titled Garage Land (both in the UK and US versions of the final song)

The Clash – Garageland Live 1977

Remembering Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren

Vivienne Westwood
April 8, 1941 - December 29, 2022

Malcolm McLaren
January 22, 1946 - April 8, 2010

Happy Birthday to Donita Sparks, American singer, guitarist, songwriter and co-founder of the punkrock / grunge band L7, born on this day in 1963, Chicago, Illinois

Photo by Dave Willis

48 years ago today
Released on this day in 1977, the eponymous debut studio album by English punk rock band The Clash.

It is widely celebrated as one of the greatest punk albums of all time

Released 44 years ago
Adolescents, the eponymous debut studio album by American punk rock band Adolescents, featuring the track Amoeba

Adolescents - Amoeba (Official Music Video)

48 years ago

The Clash on the cover of NME, April 1977.

Three years ago today
Punk rock queen Pamela Rooke aka Jordan died far too early on April 3, 2022 at the age of 66 as a result of a variant of biliary cancer.

Rest in Punk Queen

Chris Moorehouse

Happy Birthday to Mike Ness, American guitarist, vocalist, and chief songwriter for the punk rock band Social Distortion, born on this day in 1962, Lynn, Massachusetts

Photo by Alison Braun

Released 44 years ago: "Punks Not Dead," the first studio album by the Scottish punk rock band The Exploited, featuring the eponymous opening track

Exploited - Punks Not Dead - (Live at Carlisle City Hall, UK, 1983)

53 years ago

This early photo of The Cramps' Lux Interior and Poison Ivy was taken in April 1972 at their home in Sacramento

44 years ago
Punks Not Dead is the first studio album by the Scottish punk rock band The Exploited, released in April 1981.

The Exploited's song "Punks Not Dead" has symbolic significance for the punk movement

Remembering Dennes Dale "D." Boon, guitarist and lead singer of the American punk rock trio Minutemen, born on this day in 1958

Minutemem / D. Boon - Corona

In memory of Dennes Dale "D." Boon, guitarist and lead singer of the American punk rock trio Minutemen, born on this day in 1958 and died in a traffic accident in 1985 at the age of 27

Alison Braun

45 years ago today

The Anti-Nowhere League make their stage debut, March 31, 1980.

Anti Nowhere League - So What

Over 30..

45 years ago today

The Anti-Nowhere League played their first gig at the 1980 Chaos Show at St Mark's Hall, Royal Tunbridge Wells, March 31, 1980.

Released 43 years ago today
'Album – Generic Flipper', the debut studio album by the American punk rock band Flipper, featuring the track 'Nothing'

Flipper "Nothing"