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6 unusual facts about punk rock


Camino a Idilia

Camino A Idilia is the fourth LP released by the argentinian Punk rock formerly Hardcore punk band Shaila, released on November 18, 2006.

Concert etiquette

At concerts of hard rock, punk or heavy metal, a mosh pit will often form in front of the stage, in which slam-dancing and the like may be performed, usually in an atmosphere of lively camaraderie and mutual assistance.

Mr. Pine

Matt, coming from a background of punk, noise, pop and folk, and Kevin, coming from a background of college rock, traditional folk and especially classical music (he has a Grade X Royal Conservatory diploma for piano), had many discussions about a kind of music that they could create, containing several disparate elements.

Rock TV

Rock TV is an Italian Music TV channel based in Milan, Italy, devoted to Rock, Alternative rock, Heavy metal, Punk rock launched in Italy on SKY Italia channel 718 in 2001.

Sons of Selina

They were very hard to pigeon-hole into a musical genre as their sound swept from Punk rock to Electro Pop (sometimes in the same song!).

Viva Los Guerrillas!

Viva Los Guerrillas! is a full-length album by the Punk band The Sharpshooters.


A Weakness for Spirits

A Weakness For Spirits was a studio album released in 2005 by the American punk rock band Darkbuster.

AeTopus

Between 1987 and 1997, he played bass guitar in local Blues, Reggae, Funk, and Punk bands in Moscow, Idaho (where he earned a B.F.A. in Fine Arts/Painting at University of Idaho in 1989), Portland, Oregon, and his current home of Bellingham, Washington.

Billy Duffy

Duffy got his start playing in different punk line-ups in the late 1970s, but these earlier years were more notable for his introducing Johnny Marr (The Smiths) to the guitar and encouraging Morrissey to make his singing debut with Duffy in The Nosebleeds.

Black Market Magazine

Based in San Diego, Black Market Magazine initially featured mostly reviews / interviews of punk rock and other alternative bands such as Samhain, The Cramps, D.O.A., Tex and the Horseheads, G.B.H., New Order, Christian Death, Bad Religion, Ramones, Murphey's Law, Butthole Surfers, Wasted Youth, Danzig, Marilyn Manson, etc..

Brendan Mullen

Brendan Mullen (October 9, 1949 – October 12, 2009) was a British-American nightclub owner, music promoter and writer, best known for founding the seminal Los Angeles punk rock club The Masque.

Corpse paint

The earliest rock groups to don makeup similar to corpse paint included Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Arthur Brown in the 1960s, Secos & Molhados, Alice Cooper and Kiss in the 1970s and, later that decade, punk rockers like The Misfits and singer David Vanian of The Damned.

CPC Gangbangs

In early 2003, guitarist and vocalist Paul Spence, (previously a member of a punk rock band, Lyle Sheraton and the Daylight Lovers), and newly famous for co-starring in the mockumentary cult classic FUBAR: The Movie, joined the band, renamed the CPC Gangbangs.

Crno na belo

Crno na belo (Black and white) is the title of the comeback single by the Serbian punk rock band Goblini, featuring the songs "Luna" ("The Moon"), written during the rehearsals held on May 2010, and "Kao da" ("As if"), written during the U magnovenju recording sessions.

Demolition 23

Monroe's former Hanoi Rocks bandmate Sami Yaffa played bass guitar on the album and the music was a return to Monroe and Yaffa's punk roots with tracks such as "Same Shit Different Day", "Hammersmith Palais" and covers of songs by Johnny Thunders, UK Subs and The Dead Boys.

Deweare

Deweare's music was greatly influenced by the resurgence of French punk cult bands such as Bérurier Noir and Ludwig von 88, as well as by rock musician, comedian and poet Alain Bashung and by American music artist Beck—another musician to whom Deweare's vocals have been compared.

Eighth Day Slice/Fiddlin on Ya Roof

Eighth Day Slice/Fiddlin on ya Roof is a double album by the Jewish punk rock band Yidcore, released in 2005 (see 2005 in music).

First Arsch

First Arsch (loosely translated as "Apex Ass") was a Schwerin-based Punk rock band formed in 1986 by Till Lindemann, lead-vocalist for the German band Rammstein.

Forever Malcolm Young

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

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.

Gene Trautmann

He began playing in punk bands in high school and eventually joined a group called the Miracle Workers, who were dedicated to reviving the first-generation punk of mid-’60s garage bands like the Sonics and the Count Five.

Hamburg Records

Throughout the 2000s, the company included an artist management department, while the musically focus was on any kind of Rock, particularly on Punk.

Hate Your Friends

The album showcases their early punk roots, and is one of only three albums to feature the full original lineup of Evan Dando, Ben Deily, and Jesse Peretz.

KCDIY

KCDIY is also the name of a music compilation featuring punk and hardcore bands from the Kansas City area such as Anxiety Attack, Crap Corps, Dick Cheney's Dick, The Hospital, Alert!

London Rollergirls

The London Rollergirls have an all-star travel team called London Brawling, whose name is inspired by the song London Calling by U.K. punk rock band The Clash.

Martin Tamburovich

Martin Tamburovich (June 6, 1958 – December 2, 2003) was the co-founder of New Alliance Records and vocalist for the short-lived Punk/New Wave band The Reactionaries.

Naykrascha Myt

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

Night Fever

Texan punk rock band The Dicks covered this song on the B-side of their 1980 debut single "Hate the Police" under the title "All Night Fever".

Painted Willie

Painted Willie was a punk rock band started in 1984 in Los Angeles by drummer and film-maker Dave Markey after the demise of his first band, Sin 34.

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.

Porcos Cegos

Porcos Cegos (previously known as Blind Pigs) is a punk rock band formed in 1993 in the city of Barueri, Brazil, mainly influenced by Forgotten Rebels, Misfits and Ramones.

Pure 107.8FM

Pure radio has mainstream programming during the day and community-focused shows in the evening cover topics such as sexuality, aging and health, as well as specialist music shows including classic 60s, indie, funk, punk, soul and blues.

Radnička Kontrola

Radnička Kontrola (Serbian Cyrillic: Радничка Контрола, trans. Workers' Control) was a former Yugoslav punk rock/New Wave band from Belgrade, active in the late 1970s and early 1980s and notable for its appearance on the compilation album Artistička radna akcija.

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.

Sandor Katz

He was the subject of the 2009 song by the punk rock band Propagandhi, "Human(e) Meat (The Flensing of Sandor Katz)," a satirical vegan response to Katz's 2006 chapter on "Vegetarian Ethics and Humane Meat" in The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved.

Scott Ritcher

He is the former proprietor of the Slamdek Record Company which released early recordings by influential punk and indie rock bands including Endpoint, Rodan, Jawbox, and Ritcher's own bands Sunspring and the Metroschifter.

Shit Out of Luck

Shit Out Of Luck is an album released in 1996 by the punk rock band The Lillingtons

Sludgeworth

Sludgeworth is an American punk rock band from Chicago, Illinois consisting of Dan Schafer (vocals), Adam White (guitar), Dave McClean (guitar), Mike Hootenstrat (bass), and Brian Vermin (drums).

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.

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 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 Complete Singles Collection 1994–2000

The Complete Singles Collection 1994–2000 is an album by the punk rock band The Unseen, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music).

The Crane Wives

While the band’s moniker came in part from The Decemberists' 2006 album, The Crane Wife, the members claim a wide variety of influences: folk, blues, ska, punk, and even heavy metal.

The Offs

The Offs are a punk/ska band from San Francisco, started by guitarist Billy Hawk and singer Don Vinil, and later joined by former Hot Tuna drummer Bob Steeler and a rotation of horn players including Bob Roberts, Richard Edson and Roland Young.

The Perfect Crime

The Perfect Crime is the second studio album by English punk rock band the Anti-Nowhere League.

The Very Best of Men's Recovery Project

The Very Best of Men's Recovery Project is a greatest hits album released by the American experimental punk group Men's Recovery Project on October 15, 2005 (see 2005 in music).

Todd Mohney

He played guitar in the punk "super-group" band The Falcon, though he only appeared on the original EP, not being able to attend the recording session for the band's first full length, Unicornography.

Too Many Broken Hearts

English punk rock band Peter and the Test Tube Babies recorded a cover of the song for their 1990 album The $hit Factory.

Tuned to a Different Station

"Tuned to a Different Station" is a song by English punk rock band Dogs and is featured on their debut album, Turn Against This Land.

Undone – The Sweater Song

Punk/Indie rock band Titus Andronicus have covered the song multiple times on various tours; the band included one of these live covers on their mixtape, Titus Andronicus LLC Mixtape Vol 1.

When in Rome Do as The Vandals

When in Rome Do as the Vandals is the first album by the Huntington Beach punk rock band The Vandals, released in 1984 by National Trust Records.

You Suffer

Zak Smith quotes the lyrics to the song, which he describes as the "shortest punk song on the subject of suffering (or any subject)" at the conclusion of his memoir We Did Porn.

Zehn kleine Jägermeister

"Zehn kleine Jägermeister" (German: Ten little hunters/Jägermeisters) is a song by German punk rock group Die Toten Hosen.


see also

Bator

Stiv Bators (1949–1990), born Steven John Bator, American punk rock vocalist and guitarist

Beelzebubba

The music videos for "Punk Rock Girl" and "Smokin' Banana Peels" were shown on episodes of Beavis and Butt-head.

The song "Punk Rock Girl" is featured in the video game Tony Hawk's Project 8 and is covered by MxPx in On the Cover II.

Bela šljiva

Serbian punk rock band Atheist Rap recorded a cover version of the song as a part of the Pekinška Patka cover versions mix entitled "Plitka poezija".

Bunty

The lyrics to the song "Melody Lee" by the British punk rock group The Damned, on their 1979 album Machine Gun Etiquette, were borrowed entirely from the dialogue balloons of Bunty comics.

Buzz Clic

Buzz Clic (born Elmer Charles Brandt Jr., May 25, 1949, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American musician and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist for the punk rock band, the Rubber City Rebels.

Caroline Coon

In the "Punky Business" (punk rock) episode of the BBC comedy series The Goodies, Jane Asher plays a parody of Coon ("Caroline Kook"), the dream lover of Tim Brooke-Taylor's aspiring punk rock star.

Caron Bernstein

Caron remained in New York taking up acting work in movies such as Who's the man? and Business for Pleasure (where she took a leading role opposite Gary Stretch.) She is still pursuing music, inspired by her punk-rock heroes as a teen (including David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Annie Lennox), and has appeared in many different bands including Kill-5 and C.

Chris McGrath

Gunner McGrath (Christopher Leslie McGrath, born 1978), American musician, lead singer and guitarist of the punk rock band Much The Same

Christopher Ward

C. J. Ramone (Christopher Joseph Ward, born 1965), American musician, bassist for punk rock group The Ramones

Contra Costa College

John Kiffmeyer, (also known as Al Sobrante), the original drummer for the punk rock band Green Day

Dan Vapid

Schafer contributed a song on the charity album for Children's Memorial Hospital by the Chicago super group The Black Sheep Band, A Chicago Punk Rock Collaboration for the Kids, Vol 1.

Das Oath

Their self-conscious move away from a typical punk rock aesthetic presaged a signing to Dim Mak Records, an extremely varied and commercial label that released Das Oath's most critically well-received release, their self-titled LP from 2004.

Dave Laing

His books have included The Sound of our Time (1969), Buddy Holly (1970), The Electric Muse: the story of Folk into Rock (with Karl Dallas, Robin Denselow and Robert Shelton, 1975), and One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock (1985).

Death Before Dishonor

Death Before Dishonour, the fifth studio album by the Scottish punk rock band The Exploited

Drug policy of the Netherlands

In 2006, Gerd Leers, then mayor of the border city of Maastricht, on the Dutch-Belgian border, criticised the current policy as inconsistent, by recording a song with the Dutch punk rock band De Heideroosjes.

Gilford

Niki Francesca (b. 1988), lead singer of Anonymous, an Andorran punk rock band, is from Gilford; he and his family moved to Andorra when he was a baby.

Girl with Curious Hair

A rich young Republican living an alternate life steeped in punk rock and sadism spends an evening at a Keith Jarrett concert in Irvine, where his LSD-influenced girlfriend is distracted by a girl with curious hair.

Historia Calamitatum

"Historia Calamitatum" is the name of a bonus track off of U.K. version of the album Appeal to Reason by the punk rock band Rise Against.

Inge Johansson

Inge Johansson (born May 10, 1977) is the bass player of the politically charged punk/rock band The (International) Noise Conspiracy, which he formed in Umeå, Sweden in 1998 together with Dennis Lyxzén, Sara Almgren, Ludwig Dahlberg and Lars Strömberg.

Isotopes Punk Rock Baseball Club

Isotopes Punk Rock Baseball Club or more commonly, The Isotopes are a Canadian punk rock band, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Jai Al-Attas

The company's first project is a feature-length documentary on the explosion of punk rock in the 90s, titled One Nine Nine Four, which he is writing and directing.

Jarret Myer

Their business philosophy was based on mixing the strategy of punk rock music labels like SST and Victory with aggressive marketing using the financial support of first News Corp and then MCA.

John D Morton

Jon Savage, England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock (1991), Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-13975-0

L'Oie de Cravan

It has also published the writings of people associated with the music world, such as critic Byron Coley, folk singer Michael Hurley and punk rock icon Mike Watt.

Les Warner

When punk rock exploded in 1976, his steamhammer style—described as Stewart Copeland's handiwork and John Bonham's pedal power—was perfect for punk and versatile enough for other musical styles, and Warner did sessions with everyone from Sham 69, Here and Now, Johnny Thunders to The Waterboys and Julian Lennon.

Letov

Yegor Letov (1964–2008), Russian punk rock musician, leader of the band Grazhdanskaya Oborona

Macrocarpaea

Macrocarpaea dies-viridis "Named for the American punk rock music group Green Day, whose music we listened to, especially while driving to localities throughout Ecuador during out 2006 expedition".

Malaysian rock

During the early 90s, the punk rock scene was underground in Kuala Lumpur.

Mark Anderson

Mark Andersen, punk rock activist and author who lives in Washington D.C.

McHenry, Illinois

Matt Skiba (b. 1976) and Rob Doran (b. 1976), members of the punk rock band Alkaline Trio, lived in McHenry and attended McHenry High School (East Campus)

Me First

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, a punk rock supergroup that records covers of older pop songs

Miriam Linna

Born in Sudbury, Ontario, Linna is part of the collective of musicians that emerged from the Cleveland, Ohio punk rock scene, including the Dead Boys and Pere Ubu.

Mutant Press

From 1996 to 2004, Jerome T. Youngman managed his recording studio, 500 Pound Weasel Records, in Southfield, Michigan, where he released fourteen Mutant Press albums, and produced over 200 CD's for local Rap, Hip hop, and Punk Rock Detroit artists.

NIET

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

Nosebleeds

Ed Banger and The Nosebleeds aka The Nosebleeds, a British punk rock band of the 1970s

Post Punk Kitchen

The hosts cooked vegan food to a back drop of punk rock music and featured local bands such as Made Out of Babies and The Cuban Cowboys "prepping" while singing one of their songs.

Savage Pencil

Savage Pencil was also a member of The Art Attacks, a band who released two 7"s; "I'm A Dalek" b/w "Neutron Bomb" (released on the Albatross label in 1977) and "First & Last" / "Punk Rock Stars" / "Rat City" (released on the Fresh label in 1979).

Skatepark of Tampa

In 2012, SPoT hosted its 20 year anniversary event with performances from Aerosmith, prog-rocker Geoff Tate and punk-rock band Sum 41.

Slamdance

Mosh, a form of dance associated with punk rock and other musical genres

SpiderCider

SpiderCider is a punk rock project from Goth/Punk/Hardcore/Metal veteran Eerie Von.

Steve Kravac

Well known in the punk rock community, Westbeach was located in Hollywood and co-owned by Brett Gurewitz of Epitaph Records and his business partner, noted recording engineer Donnell Cameron.

Stig Stench

He has played for such artists as his childhood hero Texacala Jones (Of Tex And The Horsheads Fame), the LA Punk Rock band Symbol Six and close friend Joe Buck.

Strongarm and the Bullies

In 2005, the band signed with the Dutch record label Rebellion Records to release their debut full-length CD “You Had It Coming”, and also had the lead track on Rebellion’s punk rock tribute to Johnny Cash compilation, covering “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town”.

Svetoslav Vitkov

In 1991, he joined the then-fledgling punk rock band Hipodil to replace its previous singer, Miroslav Tellalov, who left the band to serve in the Bulgarian army.

The '59 Sound

Absolutepunk.net raved about the album, saying that it's "Packed full of vivid imagery and storytelling that resembles "Born to Run"/"Darkness on the Edge of Town"-era Springsteen, "The '59 Sound" is an impeccable work of punk-rock art where each listen offers something new, never taking any hint of imagination or personal effect away from the listener; this is the album The Killers wanted to make with "Sam's Town" but were unsuccessful at."

The Smalls

Their second album To Each a Zone (1992) was produced by noted Vancouver punk rock producer Cecil English, who was very often an engineer and sometimes producer on records by NoMeansNo (The Day Everything Became Isolated and Destroyed) and DOA (Win The Battle) -- including a collaboration between Jello Biafra and DOA (Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors).

Tiger Williams

In 1996, Canadian punk rock band The Hanson Brothers spearheaded a campaign to agitate for Tiger's induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Victory Mixture

Ditta met DeVille in 1980 when DeVille was touring with Mink DeVille, and Ditta joined the band in an after-hours jam session at the Beat Exchange, a New Orleans punk rock hangout.