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Siouxsie Sioux by Borin Van Loon (1979)

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Some Scans from the Tommy (London Symphony Orchestra & Chambre Choir) booklet

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34 years ago

Women of punk rock, so much energy in one place. 💯

L7 and Lunachicks, CBGB New York City, November 1990.

Photo by Andrea Kusten

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Re/Search

Here is a (nearly) complete collection of Re/Search books mostly on PDF.

Enjoy the Ballard. Learn about early Industrial culture. Be baffled by their attempt to cash in on the Swing trend of the early 2,000's. Be annoyed that they were partially responsible for extending Boyd Rice's career by decades. Marvel at once was and might possibly still be transgressive.

You can get it all from my Google Drive HERE

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1973 The Who perform at Edmonton Sundown, Edmonton, England

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47 years ago

Handsome Dick Manitoba of The Dictators, Mark Perry of the punk fanzine Sniffin Glue and Joan Jett of The Runaways in London, England, November 1977.

Photo by Bob Gruen

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Park(a) life: mini-mod revivalists, as captured by Derek Ridgers near Carnaby St in London back in 1982.

***same boys, different shot (actually not that different, it seems they had mastered only one pose, kind of like Zoolander).

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Irvine Welsh (scrittore di Trainspotting) con la t-shirt "The book was better"

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Recorded 46 years ago today

The Feeding of the 5000, the debut album by the anarcho-punk band Crass, featuring this track "Punk Is Dead"

Not a light material, uncomfortable and somewhat controversial. Love it 🤩

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John Lydon masterfully photographed by Anton Corbijn in the summer of 1983, with the old New Yorker Hotel in the background.

In 1981, PiL decided to relocate from London to New York, where recording sessions for the band's 4th studio album took place between '82-'83. After Pete Jones and Keith Levene left, John Lydon remained the only founding member still in the band and with the exception of Martin Atkins, the line-up was largely unknown local New Jersey musicians hired for the shows.

In September 1983 PiL’s biggest UK hit single, ‘This Is Not A Love Song‘, is released, followed by their first actual UK and European tours.

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18 years ago today

The Bowery changed forever

Early Monday morning on October 16, 2006, punk rock venue CBGB officially closed its doors.

Hilly Kristal and the homeowners ended their relationship due to a long argument

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Debbie Harry photographed by Greg Gorman, 1995

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1968

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Louis Kontoulis, guitarist/vocalist of the (possibly) first Greek punk band Stress, captured here as a 16-year-old back in 1979 in the neighbourhood of Plaka, "a wonderful Babel" as he remembers the district under the Acropolis where nightclubs, discos, rock and gay bars were once located, a melting pot that attracted junkies, beggars, prostitutes, tourists and bar-hoppers and acted as a melting pot for the various youth subcultures of the time and as home of the burgeoning Athenian punk scene in the late-‘70s/early-'80s.

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The late Adrian Borland, genius frontman of The Sound, in an Ian Curtis t-shirt while on holiday in Crete, Greece, back in 1992, a few years after the disbandment of The Sound.

Looking at this photo, one can't help but think of the tragic end which connects those two, apart from the fact they were both the rare kind of talent you only get a few times in each generation and that The Sound seem to take up where Joy Division left off.

faroutmagazine.co.uk/ "…Borland continued to release music in a solo career over the course of the ’90s with limited success, all the while battling with his depression, hospitalised on several occasions for psychiatric care. In 1999, unable to overcome his mental condition, Borland committed suicide by jumping in front of a moving express train near Wimbledon station in London. One can’t help but draw a final parallel between Adrian Borland and Ian Curtis of Joy Division, who more famously met an end by his own hand in 1980… …As the past has told us, the most creative minds among us are also the most troubled. The art of many of these troubled minds will naturally connect most with those who have struggled with similar internal battles…"

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Lux & Ivy, king & queen of rock'n'roll, during an interview in a London Hotel on Feb. 1990, as captured by Rudi Keuntje.

guitarworld.com/: "The Cramps (...) songs were about drugs and sex, monsters and perverts (...) And at their heart was a couple. For all the drugs, deviance and delirium, the story of the Cramps is a love story – the story of Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach..." ...Kristy Marlana Wallace, as she was known then, used to pester her older brother Jerry into showing her the basics of guitar playing. “Then when I was a teenager, I got even more interested,” she says. “I had boyfriends that played guitar, and I was more interested in the guitar than I was in them. I would trick them into teaching me things.” By the time she met Lux, then called Erick Lee Purkhiser, she was an outsider and confirmed rock ’n’ roll obsessive (...) In Erick she had met her match. He was as batshit crazy about rock ’n’ roll as she was... Lux: "Well, the first time I went out with her, we went to see a rock'n'roll show, and she wore a see-through dress with nothin' underneath it. That's when I discovered she was an exhibitionist... “Lux and Ivy were rock ’n’ roll names,” she says. “We were 24-hours-a-day rock ’n’ rollers (...) Nobody ever talks to me about music or guitar,” she once said. “I’m the queen of rock ’n’ roll, and for this not to be recognized is pure sexism.” (...) “We were watching some awards show and Lux was like, ‘Aw, you’re kidding! If those guys are the kings of rock ’n’ roll then I must be Elvis fucking Christ!’” (...) “It goes back to the rock ’n’ roll tradition of boasting – like Bo Diddley and Howlin’ Wolf,” she says. “It’s a blues tradition to boast about yourself that you’re the king, with the biggest dick, the biggest queen, whatever.”

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