#punk

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77 years young 🔥🍾💥

Happy Birthday to James Newell Osterberg aka Iggy Pop, designated the "Godfather of Punk, born on this day in 1947, Muskegon, Michigan

Photo by Rob Baker Ashton

48 years ago
The third issue of 'Punk', a music magazine and fanzine created in 1975 by cartoonist John Holmstrom, publisher Ged Dunn and resident punk Legs McNeil, came out in April 1976

I was listening to my own music last night, which is not unusual, I listen to my own music quite a bit. I like it. But as I listened to it last night, I began to view it for the first time as a body of work. I’m not sure what it was before that moment, but as I played through the almost-hour long collection of my original songs, I was struck with the feeling that this is… a thing, a representation of something, I’m not sure what. I’m usually good with words, but I’m finding it difficult to describe the shift I felt. I know I must continue to add to this body of work, and that the work must stay true to itself. Music for the sake of music, and tunes that I personally enjoy listening to over and over again. I’m not sure if it was because …

45 years ago today

Released 10 November 1978 The Clash "Give 'Em Enough Rope"
The album's cover art was designed by Gene Grei from a
postcard titled "End of the Trail", photographed by Adrian Atwater and featuring Wallace Irving Robertson.