46 years ago today
Jake Burns (right) from Stiff Little Fingers and Tony James (left) from Generation X perform at the finale of the Rock Against Racism Red Rhino Tour, Alexandra Palace, London, April 14, 1979

Virginia Turbett

36 years ago today

Kim Gordon – Sonic Youth at Kiev, Ukraine , April 14, 1989

In memory of Jimmy Webb, the former manager and buyer of the legendary Trash & Vaudeville store on St. Marks Street in New York City and owner of the punk rock store "I NEED MORE" who passed away 4 years ago

38 years ago today
VI is the fifth studio album by American hardcore punk band Circle Jerks, released on this day in 1987

Released 46 years ago today
"Love Song", a single by English punk rock band The Damned

The Damned 'Love Song', Top of the Pops 1979

45 years ago
We Gotta Get Out of This Place is Angelic Upstarts second album, released in April 1980.

43 years ago today
Glenn Danzig with the Misfits and Henry Rollins at the Whisky a Go Go, West Hollywood, April 13, 1982

Photo by Glen E. Friedman

46 years ago today
"Love Song" is a single by English punk rock band The Damned, included on the band's third album Machine Gun Etiquette and released on this day in 1979

Released 40 years ago today
Back to the Known, the second EP by American punk rock band Bad Religion, featuring the track Frogger

Bad Religion - Frogger

38 years ago today
Cro-Mags at City Gardens, Trenton, New Jersey, April 12, 1987.

Photo by Ken Salerno

40 years ago today
Back to the Known is the second EP by American punk rock band Bad Religion, released on this day in 1985, and it's a return to their punk roots.

Can you imagine this band in these times?

Dead Kennedys – California Uber Alles – Official Music Video

49 years ago
The Runaways' pose for a portrait on the beach in April, 1976 in Los Angeles, California.

Photo rights by Michael Ochs

Happy Birthday Lee Ving, frontman of the punk band Fear, born on April 10, 1950, in Philadelphia.

FEAR – I Don't Care About You (The Decline of Western Civilization)

Happy birthday to Fred Smith, original bassist for Blondie, and far more famously, bassist for Television when Richard Hell left the band, born on this day in 1948 in New York City.

Lynn Goldsmith

Social Distortion Live Peer Records, Anaheim, CA, USA 4th September 1983

Happy Birthday to Lee James Jude Capallero aka Lee Ving, American musician and frontman of the Los Angeles based hardcore punk band Fear, born April 10, 1950, Philadelphia.

Photo by Edward Colver

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.

Three years ago today
In memory Chris Bailey, Australian singer, songwriter, musician and co-founder of punk rock band the Saints, died in Haarlem on April 9, 2022, aged 65

Gus Stewart