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unusual facts about punk scene



Asher Swissa

The band used to play in small venues in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and enjoyed limited success in the small Israeli Punk scene.

Die Tödliche Doris

Die Tödliche Doris was part of the Geniale Dilettanten (Ingenious Dilettantes) movement, a merger of the New Wave and post-punk scene, which combined influences like Frieder Butzmann, Einstürzende Neubauten and Malaria!.

KUD Idijoti

In 1987 they won the Youth Festival prize in Subotica in competition with over 300 bands and became one of the most popular bands on the punk scene of the former Yugoslavia.


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Al Dimalanta

He is best known as the leader, co-founder and chief songwriter of the legendary Philippine punk band Dead Ends (1985-1996) and the leader and chief songwriter of punk-hardcore band Throw (band) 2000–present, considered one of the most important bands in the contemporary local punk scene.

Argentine punk

Their songs "1, 2, Ultraviolento" (inspired on the movie A Clockwork Orange) and "Represión" became official anthems of the punk scene.

Beneath the Shadows

Though the album was critically well received and led to the band being featured in director Penelope Spheeris' film Suburbia, it was largely rejected by their fanbase within the punk scene.

Bored Suburban Youth

Along with bands such as Bedlam Hour, Mass Appeal and The Sex Mutants, BSY contributed to the nascent punk scene in the decidedly un-punk environs of the politically and socially conservative New South.

C.A.F.B.

With the help of Benedek Fliegauf C.A.F.B. has been booked in the legendary alternative rock club "Black Hole" the first time ever in the summer of 1991 which helped the group move forward and get noticed in the Budapest punk scene.

Coca Carola

Signed to the record label Beat Butchers they were well known to the Swedish punk scene together with bands such as Asta Kask and Köttgrottorna.

Dangerhouse Records

Started in 1977 and collapsing by the end of 1980, Dangerhouse was a short-lived enterprise, which nonetheless left its mark on the punk scene.

Dropping Food on Their Heads Is Not Enough: Benefit for RAWA

Featuring local unknowns as well as groups like Anti-Flag, Youth Brigade, Chumbawamba, Fleshies, The Frisk and Jello Biafra as well as setting aside 100% of all proceeds to be given to the Revolutionary Association for the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) this CD was well received by the media as well as the punk scene in general.

For Against

Something of an anomaly in Midwestern America, For Against—especially early in its career—has looked to a distinctly British aesthetic for inspiration, most obviously the post-punk scene exemplified by the early rosters of the Factory and 4AD record labels.

For Science

In the Summer of 2006, "Revenge For Hire" was released on Don Giovanni Records which gained them a following in both the New Brunswick basement scene as well as the pop punk scene resulting in them playing many shows with other local pop punk bands such as The Ergs!, and The Steinways.

Four Deadly Questions

Most DIY bands and Recess Records affiliates utilize this band for setting up gigs in the New York City area as all members of this band have been in the punk scene for many years and have access to setting up shows for bands who would otherwise have no way of booking themselves at larger clubs.

Hiimwaterdragon

As a teenager, his uncle Pete Pontikoff (vocalist of Benümb) introduced him to the metal/punk scene at Gilman, among other music scenes and gave him the opportunity to do production jobs for his projects signed with Relapse Records.

Manic Hispanic

The name of the band keeps with their habit of mashing up Latin/Cholo culture with punk culture, the name being a play on Manic Panic a brand of hair dye popular in the punk scene.

Martin Sorrondeguy

In 1997, he appeared in Scott Treleaven's documentary film Queercore: A Punk-U-Mentary and spoke about being gay in the hardcore punk scene.

Negazione

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

Oh Bondage Up Yours!

Poly Styrene, X-Ray Spex's songwriter as well as lead vocalist, had been motivated to join the punk scene like many others as a result of attending a Sex Pistols concert—her first encounter with the band, when she still went by Marianne Elliot-Said, was in Hastings in early July 1976.

Punk rock in Spain

In Madrid, which had been the power center of Franco’s Falangist party, the punk scene was like “a release valve” for the formerly repressed youth.

Sudden Death Records

Sudden Death Records arrived in Canada's burgeoning punk scene in 1978.

The Spelling Mistakes

It is purported to be inspired by actress Rena Owen of Once Were Warriors fame, who was involved in the punk scene at the time.

The Uptones

Along with Operation Ivy, the Uptones formed the core of the Berkeley ska-punk scene that paved the way for the likes of Rancid.

Tru Fax and the Insaniacs

The voice of the band's lead vocalist, Diana Quinn, has been described as evoking "early Deborah Harry -- sort of Blondie meets The Stooges or New York Dolls." TFI was part of DC's infant punk scene in the late 1970s/early 1980s.

Velvet Monkeys

Formed in 1980 from the ashes of Williamsburg, Virginia's new wave rockers Citizen 23, the band relocated to Washington, DC at the right time to become darlings of the local art-punk scene, along with other post-punkers such as Egoslavia, Bob Boilen's Tiny Desk Unit, Chalk Circle, and The Insect Surfers.