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Be Your Own Pet's Jemina Pearl

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/
1193975990/be-your-own-pet-jemina-pearl-mommy-interview

Blink-182

San Diego's kings of pop-punk

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/11/
1128131250/blink-182-reunite-tour-
tom-delonge-mark-hoppus-travis-barker

Bikini Kill    USA    1990s-2020s

Vivienne Westwood    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/
vivienne-westwood 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/dec/03/
vivienne-westwood-cool-earth-environment-fashion

Billy Childish    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/may/17/
billy-childish-buff-medways

LCD Soundsystem    USA

dance-punk band formed in 2002

https://www.theguardian.com/music/
lcd-soundsystem 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/07/
lcd-soundsystem-announce-final-concert

Essential Logic    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/28/
id-wear-a-mac-on-stage-because-of-all-the-spitting-lora-
logic-on-punk-prayer-and-poly-styrene

Logic    UK

born Susan Whitby

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/28/
id-wear-a-mac-on-stage-because-of-all-the-spitting-lora-
logic-on-punk-prayer-and-poly-styrene

Poly Styrene,

the Raincoats and the Slits    UK

- punk's most radical figures

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/aug/08/
gender.arts

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/28/
id-wear-a-mac-o

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/05/
poly-styrenes-inspiring-sensitivity-should-be-the-true-legacy-of-punk

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/aug/08/
gender.arts

Delta 5    UK

Delta 5 emerged

from the same late-'70s

Leeds University art scene

as close friends and collaborators

Gang of Four and the Mekons

— but with three women

and two basses at the forefront,

their brand of angular dance-punk

stood out.

With "Mind Your Own Business"

and subsequent singles like

"You" and "Try"

the band developed a detached,

distinctly feminine style

that was cool, confident

and unapologetic

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/16/
1040182294/delta-5s-julz-sale-had-complete-control

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/16/
1040182294/delta-5s-julz-sale-had-complete-control

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/apr/19/
pubs-disco-and-fighting-nazis-how-leeds-nurtured-british-post-punk

Glenn Michael Lockett    USA    1951-2023

influential record producer who,

working under the name Spot,

helped define the jet-turbine sound

of American punk rock in the 1980s,

recording groundbreaking albums

by Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen

and many others,

(...)

As the in-house producer for SST

from 1979 to 1985,

Mr. Lockett controlled

the mixing board

on landmark recordings

that helped bring American punk

from deafening gigs

in garages and basements

to the mainstream

— the college-radio mainstream,

at least.

He produced or engineered

more than 100 albums for SST,

including classics like

Black Flag’s “Damaged” (1981),

Descendents’

“Milo Goes to College” (1982),

Meat Puppets’ first album (1982),

Minutemen’s

“What Makes a Man Start Fires?” (1982)

and Hüsker Dü’s “Zen Arcade” (1984).

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/
arts/music/spot-record-producer-dead.html

Between 1979 and 1985,

Kimberly Dianne Shattuck    USA    1963-2019

Kim Shattuck

guitarist,

singer and songwriter

of The Muffs, The Pandoras

and The Coolies

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/03/
766780466/kim-shattuck-an-enduring-presence-in-l-a-punk-dead-at-56

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/03/
766780466/kim-shattuck-an-enduring-presence-in-l-a-punk-
dead-at-56

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/
arts/music/kim-shattuck-muffs-dead.html

Martin Thau    USA    1938-2014

music executive

who was a catalyst

for some of the most

influential rock acts

of New York in the 1970s,

including

the New York Dolls,

the Ramones

and Suicide

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/
arts/music/marty-thau-manager-in-early-new-york-punk-scene-dies-at-75.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/
arts/music/marty-thau-manager-in-early-new-york-punk-scene-dies-at-75.html

 X-Ray Spex    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2017/apr/28/
my-mum-the-punk-pioneer-
poly-styrenes-daughter-remembers-the-x-ray-spex-leader

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/apr/26/
poly-styrene-obituary

Wilko Johnson    UK    1947-2022

punk pioneer

Known later

as an actor on “Game of Thrones,”

he helped lay the foundation

for a 1970s rock revolution

on England’s pub circuit.

(...)

searing yet stoical guitarist

for the British band Dr. Feelgood,

whose ferociously minimalist fretwork

served as an early influence

for punk-rock luminaries in the 1970s,

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/
arts/music/wilko-johnson-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/music/
wilko-johnson

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/
arts/music/wilko-johnson-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/24/
wilko-johnson-dr-feelgood-tribute-cancer-70s-rock

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/23/
wilko-johnson-obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/23/
wilko-johnson-dies-aged-75

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/10/
wilko-johnson-interview-ive-got-a-future

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/12/
julien-temple-wilko-johnson-sxsw-medieval-saint

Marianne Joan Elliott-Said    UK    1957-2011

stage name Poly Styrene,

best known

as the frontwoman

with 1970s punk group

X-Ray Spex

https://www.theguardian.com/music/
poly-styrene

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/apr/26/
poly-styrene-obituary

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/01/
arts/music/poly-styrene-i-am-a-cliche-documentary.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/mar/05/
poly-styrene-i-am-a-cliche-review-x-ray-spex-singer-film

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/05/
poly-styrenes-inspiring-sensitivity-should-be-the-true-legacy-of-punk

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2017/apr/28/
my-mum-the-punk-pioneer-
poly-styrenes-daughter-remembers-the-x-ray-spex-leader

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/arts/music/
poly-styrene-brash-frontwoman-of-x-ray-spex-dies-at-53.html

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/apr/26/
poly-styrene-obituary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/26/poly-styrene-dies-aged-53

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/apr/26/
poly-styrene-x-ray-spex?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/23/poly-styrene-interview

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/dec/04/punk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/aug/08/gender.arts

the Seeds    USA

psychedelic protopunk band

Sky Saxon (Richard Elvern Marsh)    1946-2009

The raucous sound

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jun/29/
sky-saxon-obituary?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jun/29/
sky-saxon-obituary?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/
arts/music/27saxon.html

Thursday    USA

American post-hardcore band

formed in New Brunswick, New Jersey

in 1997.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Thursday_(band)

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/15/
1244466419/8-tracks-thursday-nia-archives-bbymutha-daniel-bachman

Eric Goulden, known as Wreckless Eric    UK

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreckless_Eric

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/aug/10/
artsfeatures

Big Audio Dynamite    UK    early-80s

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/jan/20/
big-audio-dynamite-clash

Luxury    USA

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/06/
738458515/parallel-love-luxury-band-accident-eastern-orthodox-christian-priests

https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/04/08/
397883723/vikings-choice-luxury-you-must-change-your-life

Algebra Mothers    USA

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/02/
729102751/algebra-mothers

Germs    USA

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jan/17/
lorna-doom-germs

https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/
transcript.php?storyId=476449645 - May 2, 2016

Laura Jane Grace

&

The Devouring Mothers    USA

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/01/
661158897/first-listen-laura-jane-grace-the-devouring-mothers-bought-to-rot

Against Me!    USA

https://www.npr.org/artists/127482144/against-me

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/01/
661158897/first-listen-laura-jane-grace-the-devouring-mothers-bought-to-rot

Dickie Hammond    1965-2015

one of British punk rock’s

most gifted and revered guitarists

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/
punk-is-beautiful-dickie-hammond-1965-2015/

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/
punk-is-beautiful-dickie-hammond-1965-2015/

Slow Faction    UK

https://slowfaction.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-brixton

https://louderthanwar.com/
slow-faction-heavy-manners-album-review/

The Pigs    UK

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pigs

Suicide    USA    1970s-2010s

Alan Bermowitz

known professionally as Alan Vega   1938-2016

Alan Vega in 1981.

Sacred Bones Records will release

a series of albums containing work he left behind

after his death.

Alan Vega Left a Robust Vault.

The Excavation Begins With a New Album.

The Suicide singer died in 2016.

Now his wife and musical partner, Liz Lamere,

is releasing “Mutator,”

an album the duo made in the mid-90s.

NYT

April 15, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/
arts/music/alan-vega-mutator-vault.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Suicide_(band)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Martin_Rev

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Alan_Vega

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/
arts/music/alan-vega-mutator-vault.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/
arts/design/alan-vega-ignored-the-art-world-it-wont-return-the-favor.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/
arts/music/popcast-dissecting-the-legacy-of-alan-vega-and-suicide.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2016/07/18/
486474044/remembering-punk-pioneer-alan-vega

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/18/
alan-vega-obituary

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/18/
arts/music/alan-vega-punk-music-pioneer-and-artist-dies-at-78.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/23/
arts/music-of-suicide-duo-an-affirmation-of-life.html

The Undertones    Northern Ireland    1970s-2010s

The Go-Go's    USA

‘The time of my life’ …

(from left) Kathy Valentine, Jane Wiedlin,

Gina Schock, Charlotte Caffey and Belinda Carlisle.

Photograph: Paul Natkin

Getty Images

The Go-Go's Jane Wiedlin on the birth of LA punk:

'I wrote lyrics at work on crystal meth'

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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/01/
jane-wiedlin-go-gos-la-punk-scene-los-angeles

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/05/
898998568/how-the-go-gos-perfected-pop-punk

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/01/
jane-wiedlin-go-gos-la-punk-scene-los-angeles

https://www.npr.org/2011/06/12/
137127044/the-go-gos-still-going

The Pogues    UK

hane MacGowan aged 19,

as editor of punk rock magazine Bondage in his office at London.

Photograph: Sydney O’Meara

Getty Images

Shane MacGowan’s art: in pictures

Shane MacGowan’s, lead singer of the Pogues,

produced art throughout his rollercoaster musical career.

Here, his wife Victoria Clarke has added context

to the captions with anecdotes

and insight into the history behind the art

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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/oct/23/
shane-macgowans-art-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/music/
the-pogues

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/oct/23/
shane-macgowans-art-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/14/
shane-macgowan-60-musical-legacy-pogues

The Damned    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/apr/08/
sheila-rock-punk-the-clash-siouxsie-sioux-pictures-gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jun/13/
30-minutes-with-the-damned-drummer-rat-scabies-interview-chris-millar

The Stranglers    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/music/
thestranglers

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/aug/31/
heretics-ostracised-stranglers-fights-drugs-finally-growing-up

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/02/
the-stranglers-how-we-made-european-female

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/10/
punk-bands-uk-archive-1977

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/12/
stranglers-40-years-fights-drugs-ufos

The Associates (or simply Associates)    UK

‘A febrile cocktail of sex, drugs, chaos,

breathtaking good looks and rampant creativity’

… Alan Rankine of the Associates pictured right, in 1980.

Photograph: David Corio

Getty Images

Alan Rankine was the maestro of the Associates’ post-punk pop

– and an architect of indie

As the multi-instrumentalist musical force

behind the Scottish art-pop band,

and later as a producer and label boss,

Rankine was an adventurous, experimental, inspirational figure

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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/04/
alan-rankine-the-associates-architect-of-indie

formed in Dundee in 1979

by singer Billy Mackenzie

and guitarist Alan Rankine

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/04/
alan-rankine-the-associates-architect-of-indie

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/03/
alan-rankine-of-the-associates-dies-aged-64

GBH    UK

 (originally known as Charged GBH)

punk rock band formed in 1978

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBH_(band)

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/21/
midlands-punk-discharge-gbh-clay

Discharge    UK

hardcore punk band formed in 1977

in Stoke-on-Trent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discharge_(band)

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/21/
midlands-punk-discharge-gbh-clay

Hüsker Dü    USA

http://www.npr.org/2017/09/05/
547854997/first-listen-husker-du-savage-young-du

Dead Kennedys    USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Kennedys

The Erasers    USA    1970s

Pere Ubu and Devo    USA

Booji Boy finds pretty pictures, 1977.

Mark Mothersbaugh, in his alter ego as Booji Boy,

shops at the Wharf

Photograph: Ruby Ray

Kalifornia Kool:

San Francisco punk culture in the 70s and 80s – in pictures

Photographer Ruby Ray found herself at the epicentre of a movement

in late-70s San Francisco and started to capture the bands,

artists and writers who defined it.

In a new book, Ruby Ray: Kalifornia Kool,

her greatest shots have been assembled,

opening up ‘a portal to a mythic and frenzied scene’

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http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/14/
clevelands-early-punk-pioneers-ohio

Pere Ubu and Devo    USA

    Cleveland's early punk pioneers

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/may/09/
kalifornia-kool-san-francisco-punk-culture

Doctor of Madness    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/19/
doctors-of-madness-punk

The Newton Neurotics    UK

formed in Harlow, Essex, England,

in 1979.

In the 1980s

the Neurotics recorded

John Peel sessions

for BBC Radio 1, released

a critically lauded debut album,

Beggars Can Be Choosers,

and saw their third single,

Kick Out the Tories,

become an anthem

as they played

an exhausting schedule

of benefit gigs

throughout the 1984-85

miners’ strike.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/24/
colin-dredd-obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/sep/05/
kick-out-the-newtown-neurotics-story-review-
punk-rockers-tale-takes-us-back-to-the-80s

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/24/
colin-dredd-obituary

The Slits    UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/24/
how-we-made-cut-the-slits

Subway Sect    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/apr/08/
sheila-rock-punk-the-clash-siouxsie-sioux-pictures-gallery

The Moors Murderers    UK

founded in 1977

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/apr/08/
sheila-rock-punk-the-clash-siouxsie-sioux-pictures-gallery

Derek Jarman 's dystopian satire > Jubilee        1977

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/jul/20/
popandrock4 

Skins and Punks by Gavin Watson        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2008/nov/03/
skins-punks-gavin-watson?picture=339283258

USA > America's west coast / California punks        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/nov/14/
california-punk

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