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Chad Blinman

He has worked with such artists as Face to Face, The Get Up Kids, Saves the Day, Jackson United, Faith and the Muse, Monica Richards, Senses Fail, Moneen, The Deep Eynde and Jarboe, and is a member of the remix/mash-up team The Legion of Doom and recording projects Viva Death and Real Space Noise.

Clearview 77

The band has played countless shows within the East Coast with acts like Face to Face, New Found Glory, Finch, Saves the Day, The Amazing Crowns, US Bombs, Big Wig, Murphy's Law, Alkaline Trio, The Queers, GOB, and many more.

Fuck World Trade

Fuck World Trade is the second album by American punk band Leftöver Crack, released in 2004 on the Alternative Tentacles label.

How to Ruin Everything

How to Ruin Everything is the sixth studio album by the punk rock band Face to Face, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music).

Live from the Battle in Seattle

Live from the Battle in Seattle is the only album released by anti-globalization punk band The No WTO Combo.

Negazione

They were one of the early bands of the Italian hardcore punk scene, like Raw Power, Wretched, Declino and Indigesti.

Nikki Dial

The Canadian punk band the Dayglo Abortions wrote a song, entitled "Nikki Dial", about Dial on their 1995 album Little Man in the Canoe.

Paper tiger

The American punk rock band Face to Face has a song titled "Paper Tigers With Teeth" from their album Three Chords and a Half Truth.

Shabooh Shoobah

It has been covered by The Audreys, The Bravery, Everclear, Face to Face, Goo Goo Dolls, Grinspoon, Zero (a post-punk band from Uruguay, covered the song with the title No cambies), A Fire Inside and also most recently by Lazlo Bane.

The Nerve Agents

Members of The Nerve Agents are now/or used to be in the bands Said Radio, Darker My Love, The Fall, The Frisk, Hudson Criminal, Model American, Fury 66, The Distillers, Redemption 87, Pitch Black, Unit Pride, Shadowboxer, and FIVE.

The Photos

The Photos were originally a punk band named Satan's Rats that formed in Evesham, Worcestershire in 1977, with the first stable line-up of Paul Rencher (vocals), Steve Eagles (guitar/vocals), Roy Wilkes (bass guitar), and Olly Harrison (drums).


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A Simple Plan

Simple Plan, a pop punk band formed in 1999 in Montreal, Canada

Addison Timlin

She was cast as the metaphorical "Juliet" in the music video for the song "Check Yes Juliet" by pop/punk band We the Kings.

Alex P. Keaton

Florida ska/punk band Victims of Circumstance's debut album Roll the Dice featured a track titled "Me and Alex P. Keaton".

Amery Smith

In 2012 Amery joined forces with DFL vocalist Tom Paul Davis (Crazy Tom), guitarist Greg Hetson (Circle Jerks, Bad Religion) and skate legend Tony "Mad Dog" Alva on bass forming the Hardcore Punk band G.F.P. General Fucking Principle.

Arthur Sarnoff

He also made an album cover for the American punk band Butthole Surfers for their third album, Locust Abortion Technician, which portrays two clowns playing with a dog.

Aux Records

Honor Bright, a pop-punk band from Syracuse, was selected to play on the Warped Tour in 2008 and played live on MTV's program TRL.

Breaking the Rules

Breaking the Rules is a 7" single by Manchester post-punk band Ludus, released in 1983. Both the A and B side ("Little Girls") are considerably more accessible and pop-oriented than most of their earlier material, and Linder Sterling's lyrics are this time a lot more straightforward than usual, but as uncompromising as ever in the expression of her views on gender roles and sexual politics.

Community Charge

In popular culture, the punk band The Exploited featured the song "Don't Pay The Poll Tax" in their album The Massacre.

Dial House, Essex

Perhaps the best-known manifestation of the public face of Dial House was the anarcho-punk band Crass.

Fambly 42

Fambly 42 is the fourth studio album by San Pedro-based punk band Toys That Kill, released on May 15, 2012 on Recess Records.

Forever Malcolm Young

Forever Malcolm Young is the title of the 2006 album by the Australian punk band Frenzal Rhomb.

FTTW

F.T.T.W., the third album released by American hardcore punk band H2O

Funny van Dannen

The punk band Die Toten Hosen interpreted some of his songs, notably Trauriges Arschloch, Bayern, Frauen dieser Welt, and Lesbische, schwarze Behinderte.

Gary McCormack

Gary was previously bassist for Scottish punk band The Exploited between 1980 and 1983 and can be heard on their first two albums Punks Not Dead and Troops of Tomorrow.

Gazzarri's

Some other bands that played at Gazzarri's either prior to or during their mainstream success include Johnny Rivers, The Go-Go's, Tina Turner, Southgang, Sonny and Cher, Ratt, Cinderella, Chicano rock band Renegade, punk band X, Victor Flamingo, Quiet Riot, Stryper, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Guns N' Roses, Warrant, Faster Pussycat, and Canadian rockers Hollywood Trash.

Grip Inc.

Gus Chambers (1958 – 13 October 2008) took over vocals in Coventry punk band Squad (formed late 1977) from Terry Hall (who left to form The Specials).

Heartbeat Productions

Simon Edwards was looking to release records by local punk band Vice Squad, however Cherry Red were not enthusiastic, so with Dave Bateman and Shane Baldwin from the band he set up Riot City Records (they had chosen the name, as Bristol had recently been in the news due to the 1980 St. Pauls riot).

High Times' Potluck

Along the way the weed passes through the hands of an obnoxious artist (Jason Isaacs), an unfortunate small-time dealer (Jason Mewes), a bereaved Mafia gangster (Frank Adonis), the lead-singer of a punk band (Theo Kogan) and an aging TV detective (Frank Gorshin).

Jay and the Doctor

Best known as members of punk band Frenzal Rhomb, they performed occasional late-night shifts on Triple J until 2004.

La Mano Ajena

On November 2009, La Mano Ajena opened the concert of the world famous New York gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello, on their first visit to Chile.

Laura Palmer

Canadian dance-punk band You Say Party released a single in 2010 titled "Laura Palmer's Prom" on the album XXXX.

Learning English

Learning English, Lesson One, an album by the German punk band Die Toten Hosen

Let's Start a War

Let's Start a War, or Let's Start a War... (Said Maggie One Day), is the third album by the punk band The Exploited, released in 1983 through Pax Records.

Mini pops

Minny Pops, an Amsterdam-based new wave/electronic/art punk band active from the late-1970s to the mid-1980s

Misty in Roots

The punk band The Ruts who were partners of the People Unite cooperative honoured him in their song "Jah War" which appeared on their album The Crack.

Naykrascha Myt

Naykrascha Myt is the compilation album from the Ukrainian ska-punk band Mad Heads XL .

NIET

Niet, a punk rock and hardcore punk band from Ljubljana, Slovenia

On the Last Day

On the Last Day's first North American tour was in the summer of 2006 (10 August – 12 September) with New Jersey's pop-punk band Crash Romeo.

Pankrti

They billed themselves The First Punk Band Behind The Iron Curtain (one of their songs has a title Behind iron curtain old brods are pulling the red beet).

Phil Allen

In May 1977, at the petition of Deaf School's Clive Langer, he founded the punk and post-punk band, Big In Japan, being the drummer; he played in some songs which later appeared on the From Y to Z and Never Again EP, but became less inspired and left in December 1977.

Rodrigo Andrés González Espindola

In 2005 González and Bela B. (as Zwei Fickende Hunde) recorded the song Meister aller Fotzen by Die Kassierer for the CD Kunst to celebrate 20 years of the Wattenscheid punk band.

Royal Crown Revue

Two of Stern's siblings, Jamie and Adam rounded out the group (Mark, Adam and another brother Shawn were members of the punk band Youth Brigade).

Self Destruction Blues

"Dead By X-Mas" has been covered by the Japanese hardcore band The Piass in 1994, the US punk band The Hillstreet Stranglers in 2005, the British electro group Sohodolls in 2007 and the Finnish rockabilly band Big Daddy & Rockin’ Combo in 2008.

Separated Vegetables

As well as songs written by the band, it includes cover versions of songs originally by Overkill (an early D.C. punk band, not the heavy metal band of the same name), Flamin' Groovies, the Road Runners, Johnny Smith, Country Joe and the Fish, the Small Faces, Chuck Berry, and the Hangmen (whose song, "What a Girl Can't Do", the Slickee's had already released on their debut record, 1976's Hot and Cool EP.

Sister Ray

British power-punk band Buzzcocks formed as a result of a classified ad placed by founding member Howard Devoto seeking musicians to collaborate on a version of "Sister Ray".

Stan Stammers

Stammers turned down an offer by Charlie Harper to join punk band UK Subs to be in Theatre of Hate with Kirk Brandon.

Stereotyperider

Stereotyperider is a post-hardcore/punk band from Phoenix, Arizona.

Stikky

During Stikky's active years it was common for them, Crimpshrine, Isocracy, Operation Ivy, Corrupted Morals, Sweet Baby Jesus, or The Lookouts to open a bill for a touring punk band almost every weekend at 924 Gilman Street.

Strike Under

Steve Bjorklund briefly formed another Chicago punk band, Terminal Beach, then ultimately relocated to Minneapolis to pursue playing and recording with various punk and industrial music bands, including Breaking Circus.

Sus law

Also The Ruts, an English Punk band with reggae influences recorded a song, "S.U.S", which dealt with the same issue as Punks were commonly discriminated against by the English Constabulary.

The '90s Suck and So Do You

The '90s Suck and So Do You is an album by punk band Angry Samoans released in 1999 (see 1999 in music).

The Complete Sham 69 Live

The Complete Sham 69 Live is a live album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1989 (see 1989 in music).

The DHDFD's

The DHDFD's (rumored to mean "Don't Have Dogs For Dinner") are a four-piece New Zealand garage punk band who formed during the summer of 2005 in the Point Chevalier area of Auckland New Zealand.

The Wonderland Tour 2005

McFly covered a snippet of American Pop Punk band Green Day's hit American Idiot and played a full cover song by The Who who they had previously worked worked with.

Underwater basket weaving

US Punk band NOFX referred to an underwater basket weaving course in their song Anarchy Camp.

Volume Records

The Volume Records record label was responsible for the early output of the British punk band The Toy Dolls, releasing the LPs Dig That Groove Baby (1983), A Far Out Disc (1985) and Idle Gossip (1986) and the singles Nellie the Elephant and She goes to Fino's.

Wade Keighran

He started his career playing guitar in punk band Taking Sides, was the bass player and co-songwriter with The Scare and is currently writing and playing bass for Wolf & Cub.

Warped Tour Session

Warped Tour Session is a four song acoustic EP by pop-punk band Cartel.