A Rebellious Noise

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The most disgusting ritual in British punk
And that's not just the shamelessly click-baity headline talking
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Babylon's Burning hinted at greatness for The Ruts. Then tragedy struck.
The one British post-punk band you never heard of that you really need to hear
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Early XTC: Pop with a punk patina
One of my favorite British bands from the post-punk era is XTC.
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Listen to the first British punk rock single
With help from producer Nick Lowe, The Damned made music history in 1976
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Hear Elvis Costello's first recorded vocals (on his father's British TV ad for lemonade!)
I love to find the earliest possible recordings of my favorite artists.
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The greatest music PR stunt of all time
When the Sex Pistols crashed the Queen's Silver Jubilee with a serenade from the Thames
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The Sex Pistols gig that changed the course of British music history
On June 4, 1976, at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall, 'the punk atom was split'
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In 'Year Zero' of British punk music, treacly crap and novelty songs topped the singles charts
According to music lore, 1976 generally is considered “Year Zero” in British punk.
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May 2025

How Joe Strummer doomed his own original song on the U.K. singles chart
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how Joe Strummer left The 101ers — the pub rock band he started with fellow squatters in London — in late May 1976…
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The Sex Pistols song that shocked a nation
On this date in 1977, the notorious British punk band released God Save the Queen
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Was this the best British pub rock show ever?
Dr Feelgood, Kilburn and the High Roads stormed London's Lord Nelson on this date in '74
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Bringing the swing to British pub rock
Bees Make Honey takes Nag's Head patrons to Caldonia in rare 1973 video
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