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  2. The Cramps - Wikipedia

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    The Cramps were an American rock band formed in 1976 and active until 2009. Their lineup rotated frequently during their existence, with the husband-and-wife duo of singer Lux Interior and guitarist Poison Ivy the only ever-present members. The band are credited as progenitors of the psychobilly subgenre, fusing elements of punk rock with ...

  3. Punk rock - Wikipedia

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    Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a rock music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and 1960s garage rock , punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music.

  4. History of the punk subculture - Wikipedia

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    Garage rock was the first form of music called "punk", [7] and indeed that style influenced much of punk rock. Punk rock was also a reaction against tendencies that had overtaken popular music in the 1970s, including what the punks saw as "bombastic" forms of heavy metal, progressive rock and "arena rock" as well as "superficial" disco music ...

  5. Swedish rockers The Hives on 15 years of making punk rock ...

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    Famous or not, The Hives helped make punk rock cool again. So cool, in fact, that Demi Moore sported a Sex Pistols T-shirt on a 2007 cover of Architectural Digest and David Beckham was spotted in ...

  6. Dead Kennedys - Wikipedia

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    San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen wrote in November 1978, "Just when you think tastelessness has reached its nadir, along comes a punk rock group called 'The Dead Kennedys', which will play at Mabuhay Gardens on Nov. 22, the 15th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination." Despite mounting protests, the owner of Mabuhay declared ...

  7. Timeline of punk rock - Wikipedia

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    DIY Punk Rock label Dischord Records was founded by key figure in the development of hardcore punk Ian Mackaye. Ian Curtis, Joy Division lead singer, commits suicide 18 May 1980 at age 23. The rest of the band become New Order; Malcolm Owen, the Ruts lead singer, dies of a heroin overdose 14 July 1980 at age 26.

  8. The Adicts - Wikipedia

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    The Adicts are a British punk rock band from Ipswich, Suffolk, England. [1] A popular English punk rock band of the 1980s, they were often in the indie charts during that decade. [2] [3] The Adicts originated as The Afterbirth in late 1975 but never had any music or played any shows. They later became The Pinz. [4]

  9. 924 Gilman Street - Wikipedia

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    Operation Ivy playing at Gilman. As early as 1984, punk rock fan and Maximumrocknroll founder Tim Yohannan began thinking about the establishment of an all ages music space in the San Francisco Bay Area where bands could play and interact with audience members free of the structure of conventional music promotion. [2]