 | | Signed to Pipeline Records only six months after forming in 1986, the Doughboys released Whatever one year later. |
 | | As the longtime frontman for Die Ärzte, Farin Urlaub spearheaded the German punk rock revolution. While the trio never achieved the international renown of rivals Die Toten Hosen, their impact on Central European music and culture is profound, and Urlaub's satirical and often political songs are even taught in German schools. |
 | | Dito Montiel doesn't want to be thought of as a dilettante. Though he's written well-received books and directed an award-winning film, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, he is first and foremost a songwriter. |
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 | | During the punk rock era of the late '70s, there were three bands comprised of women who made some of the best, most adventurous, exhilarating, and most critically derided music of the time. |
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 | | The Mistreaters were a Milwaukee, WI, quartet that brewed up quite a rock & roll stew. It all began in 1999 with the memorable demo Don't Do Drugs and Stay in School, which established the band's white phosphorus punk-fueled garage sound. |
 | | British band Birdland scored four U.K. chart hits in 1989 and 1990, including the Top 40 "Sleep with Me. |
 | | Kisschasy are an Australian rock band whose music varies from catchy pop to emo-tinged ballads to hard rock. |
 | | German rock singer Joachim Deutschland (born Christof Johannes Joachim Faber) was born in 1980 to a German father and an American mother, both of whom are successful jazz musicians. |
 | | One of Germany's more potent alternative rock bands, Muff Potter began in the early '90s as a fairly typical German punk band yet evolved quickly, ultimately securing major-label backing by Universal in the mid-2000s. |
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 | | Hipster Daddy-O and the Handgrenades began their journey to become anarchist swing masters in Tuscon in 1997. |
 | | Recovering from '80s punk wave in Finland, there spawned two very complex but innovative rock groups, CMX and YUP. |
 | | Italian pop-punk outfit Finley formed in Milan in 2002, its members (all born in 1985) hailing from near the town of Legnano. |
 | | Out of all of the Southern Californian hardcore punk bands of the early '80s, Bad Religion stayed around the longest. |
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 | | One of the first Oi! bands, Cock Sparrer was playing loud, raw, Cockney working-class anthems as early as the first wave of British punk, although record company difficulties prevented them from issuing much material until the early '80s, when the Oi! movement was well underway. |
 | | More than any band that came out of late-'70s England, the Mekons (the name taken from the popular sci-fi comic Dan Dare) have perhaps the most devoted fans of any band even remotely connected to punk rock. |
 | | The irreverent Australian punk unit Frenzal Rhomb formed in 1993; their lineup includes vocalist Jason Whalley, guitarist Lindsay McDougal (a replacement for original guitarist Benjamin Costello), bassist Lex Feltham, and drummer Gordy Foreman (the third in a succession including Karl and Nat). |
 | | Pennywise were one of the key bands of the punk revival of the '90s. Using California hardcore as a foundation, the group incorporated funk-metal and skatepunk into its sound, developing a something that functioned as edgy, post-punk frat rock -- it was speedy and occasionally stupidly catchy, with heavy, propulsive rhythms and positive, optimistic lyrics that stood in pointed contrast to their grunge-addled peers. |
 | | Unhappy with what they were hearing on BBC Radio, the members of Snuff got together in 1986 with the intention of "taking the piss out" of mainstream music and to have a little fun. |
 | | While he’s better known as the longtime frontman of skatepunk icons Pennywise, Jim Lindberg also sings and plays guitar with his side project the Black Pacific. |
 | | The Sydney, Australia-based noise-pop band the Crux debuted in 1995 with the LP Further; after its release, they renamed themselves Sal Paradise in honor of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. |
 | | Four guys holding English degrees from Ohio State University, the New Bomb Turks have been declared as leaders in the punk rock revolution by spiked-haired, hardcore punkers everywhere. |
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 | | Of all the punk-inspired bands that came out of Boston in the early '80s, none were better than Mission of Burma. |
 | | As one of Fat Wreck Chords' very first bands, Propagandhi have long been going against the grain of not just society, but even their own record label. |
 | | Japanese punk/psychobilly rock unit The Birthday are a project of vocalist Yusuke Chiba and guitarist Akinobu Imai of the J-rock band Rosso. |
 | | Best known as the singer for X, one of the leaders of the late-'70s/early-'80s California punk explosion, Exene Cervenka has also issued solo albums, launched several side bands, and penned books. |
 | | The enduring L.A. punk band Social Distortion has overcome numerous personnel shifts, the demise of the Los Angeles hardcore scene that spawned them, and the heroin addiction of singer/guitarist/bandleader Mike Ness to achieve a measure mainstream acceptance for their rootsy, hard-hitting punk without compromise. |
 | | As frontman and main songwriter of the Clash, Joe Strummer created some of the fieriest, most vital punk rock -- and, indeed, rock & roll -- of all time. |
 | | X were far from the first punk rock band in Los Angeles, and they weren't the first to achieve some level of nationwide recognition, but in a very real way, they were the ones who put the L. |
 | | Wire emerged out of the British punk explosion but, from the outset, maintained a distance from that scene and resisted easy categorization. |
 | | Out of all the late-'70s punk and post-punk bands, none were longer lived or more prolific than the Fall. |
 | | Chicago's Screeching Weasel generally have a polarizing effect on most punk fans -- either you love their amateurish, tuneful Ramones imitation and singer/guitarist Ben Weasel's smartass suburbanite, often pop culture-oriented lyrics, or you hate them. |
 | | Better known as legendary U.K. punk-pop combo the Damned, the Nightmares was a fun one-off side project that enabled the 1984-era lineup of that band to let down their hair, paying tribute to any number of '60s garage/psych forebears. |
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 | | Orange County punk veterans the Vandals traced their roots back to the earliest days of their local scene, but didn't really make much of an impact as recording artists until the '90s. |
 | | A Swedish hard rock group featuring members of Rickshaw, Taurus, and Tiamat, the ingeniously named Chuck Norris Experiment take their cues from bands like the Hellacopters, Turbonegro, Queens of the Stone Age, and going by their adopted names -- Chuck Ransom (lead vocals), Chuck Rooster (lead guitar), Chuck Lee Riot (rhythm guitar), Chuck Mojo (bass), and Chuck Baker (drums) -- punk idols the Ramones. |
 | | The Drones were a British punk band, specifically from Manchester, comprised of guitarist Gus "Gangrene" Callendar, bassist Steve "Whisper" Cundall, vocalist/guitarist M. |
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 | | The Ramones are the first punk rock band. Other bands, such as the Stooges and the New York Dolls, came before them and set the stage and aesthetic for punk, and bands that immediately followed, such as the Sex Pistols, made the latent violence of the music more explicit, but the Ramones crystallized the musical ideals of the genre. |
 | | Known for their rousing costumed live performances and stripped-down rock sound, Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti (Three Lively Dead Boys) have been a mainstay on the Italian punk scene since their formation in 1994. |
 | | Formed in 2005 by three music-minded fifth-graders, Care Bears on Fire rose to regional prominence one year later, when the band's classicist approach to punk rock (tempered with a fondness for pop melodies) earned it a three-page spread in New York Magazine. |
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