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Dead Kennedys Announce Australia and New Zealand Dates for 2025

by Paul Cashmere

Dead Kennedys will return to Australia and New Zealand in September for the first shows since 2018.

Tagged as: 70s, Dead Kennedys, punk, USA

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The Sex Pistols Glen Matlock photo by Andrew Sladins

The Sex Pistols Dedicate Sydney Concert To Clem Burke

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The Sex Pistols dedicated their latest concert to Blondie drummer Clem Burke.

Tagged as: 70s, Australian Tour, Blondie, Clem Burke, Frank Carter, Glen Matlock, Live Nation, Never Mind The Bollocks, Paul Cook, punk, Sex Pistols, Steve Jones, UK

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Blondie Drummer Clem Burke has Died at Age 70

by Paul Cashmere

Clem Burke, the drummer for Blondie and played on every Blondie album, has died from cancer. Clem had kept his cancer battle private.

Tagged as: 70s, Blondie, Clem Burke, new wave, punk, rock, USA

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After 29 Years Sex Pistols Return To Melbourne’s Festival Hall #Review

by Paul Cashmere

The one criticism I must say about The Sex Pistols 2025 is that unlike 1977, we now have musicians who can play and a singer who can sing. You’ve also got to love that three guys fast approaching 70 have made their career for the past half a century out of a lyric that goes “No future for you, no future me”. As that wise old philosopher Alanis Morissette once said, “isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?”.

Tagged as: 70s, Australian Tour, Frank Carter, Glen Matlock, Live Nation, Never Mind The Bollocks, Paul Cook, punk, Sex Pistols, Steve Jones, UK

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Sum 41 Release Final Music Video ‘Radio Silence’

by Music-News.com

Sum 41 have released their last ever music video. Sum 41 – who recently wrapped their ‘Tour of the Setting Sum’ farewell run around the world – have dropped a new retrospective video for ‘Heaven :x: Hell’ song ‘Radio Silence’ to mark the official end of their career.

Tagged as: 90s, punk, Radio Silence, Sum 41, USA

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The 5.6.7.8’s, Guitar Wolf and Gnome, 25th March, The Tote #REVIEW

by Anna-Maria Megalogenis

The Tote is one of the last standing bastions of seminal music venues replete with the distinctive stench of decades of musos and punters’ blood, sweat and tears seeped into the carpet and walls.

Tagged as: 5678s, 80s, Japan, punk, The Tote

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Sex Pistols Play First Show of 2025 in London

by Paul Cashmere

Sex Pistols, with Frank Carter on vocals and original members Steve Jones (guitar), Paul Cook (drums) and Glen Matlock (bass), played their first show on 2025 on 21 March in London, so we now have a blueprint of what to expect when they reach New Zealand then Australia next week.

Tagged as: 70s, Australian Tour, Frank Carter, Live Nation, Never Mind The Bollocks, punk, Sex Pistols, UK

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UK Subs Denied Entry Into the USA

by Paul Cashmere

UK punk band UK Subs have been denied entry into the United States.

Tagged as: 80s, punk, UK, UK Subs

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Flogging Molly’s Dave King Spent Two Weeks In A Coma

by Music-News.com

Flogging Molly frontman Dave King “spent two weeks in a coma” after suffering a brain haemorrhage.

Tagged as: 90s, Flogging Molly, LA, punk

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Yungblud Release Nine Minute ‘Hello Heaven, Hello’

by Music-News.com

Yungblud makes a triumphant return with an epic nine-minute anthem, ‘Hello Heaven, Hello.’ The 27-year-old artist from Doncaster, whose last two albums topped the UK charts and broke into the Billboard Top 100, has accumulated over 6 billion global streams. After a period of online silence, he reemerges with what is arguably his most accomplished work to date.

Tagged as: 10s, alternative, hip-hop, punk, UK, Yungblud

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Victor Stranges Presents Atomic: The Songs of Blondie and Black Market Clash

by Paul Cashmere

Blondie and The Clash never performed together on the same bill. While both bands were influential at the same time in the late 70s, there is no record of Blondie (from New York) or (from London) playing or recording together.

Tagged as: 70s, Australia, Black Market Clash, Blondie, live music, punk, The Clash, UK, Victor Stranges

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Last Quokka To Release ‘Take The Fight To The Bastards’ Album Ahead of National Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Last Quokka will release ‘Take The Fight To The Bastards’ in one week on 14 March 2025 before heading out with The Peep Temple around Australia.

Tagged as: 20s, Australia, Last Quokka, punk, Take The Flight To The Bastard

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David Johansen of New York Dolls Dead at 75

by Paul Cashmere

New York Dolls frontman David Johansen has died from brain cancer at the age of 75.

Tagged as: 70s, David Johansen, New York Dolls, punk, USA

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Green Day Take On The American Idiots Trump, Vance and Musk In Melbourne #REVIEW

by Paul Cashmere

“Don’t you want Elon Musk to shut the f#ck up? Don’t you want Donald Trump to shut the f#ck up?’”. Green Day were in top form and didn’t hold back in speaking truth to power at their first Australian show of the Saviors tour in Melbourne on Saturday night (1 March 2025).

Tagged as: 90s, American Idiot, Australian Tour, Donald Trump, Dookie, Elon Musk, Green Day, Live Nation, punk, rock, Saviors, USA

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Billy Idol To Release First Album in 11 Years

by Paul Cashmere

Billy Idol will release ‘Dream Into It’, his first album since 2014, on 25 April.

Tagged as: 80s, Billy Idol, Dream Into It, pop, punk, rock, Still Dancing, UK

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Check Out New Meanies Music ‘Zamboni’ and ‘I Agree’

by Paul Cashmere

The Meanies have released their first new music since 2020.

Tagged as: 90s, Australia, I Agree, punk, The Meanies, Zamboni

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Civic To Open For The Sex Pistols In Australia

by Paul Cashmere

Melbourne punk band Civic will open for The Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter on their upcoming Australian tour.

Tagged as: 70s, Australia, Civic, Live Nation, punk, Sex Pistols

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Skunk Anansie Premiere New Song ‘Cheers’

by Music-News.com

Skunk Anansie have announced their hugely anticipated new studio album The Painful Truth. The new album, their seventh studio collection and first in nine years, will be released on May 23rd via FLG Records. To celebrate the band will be playing a very special headline show on day of release, just outside Bristol.

Tagged as: 90s, punk, Skunk Anansie, UK

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The Saints Expand Dates To Play North America and Europe

by Paul Cashmere

Australia’s legendary punk band The Saints will perform two shows in New Zealand late October and then head to North America and onto Europe for more dates at the end of 2025.

Tagged as: 70s, Australia, punk, The Saints

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Mark Hoppus Is Going On A Book Tour

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Mark Hoppus is going on a solo tour to promote his new memoir.

Tagged as: 90s, author, Blink-192, book, Fahrenheit-182, Mark Hoppus, punk, USA

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The Jam Drummer and Co-Founder Rick Buckler Dies Aged 69

by Paul Cashmere

Rick Buckler, co-founder and drummer for The Jam, has died at the age of 69.

Tagged as: 70s, Bruce Foxton, Paul Weller, punk, Rick Buckler, rock, The Jam

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Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 photo by Ros O'Gorman

Mike Skiba Rejoins Blink-182 For One Song At LA Fire Benefit

by Paul Cashmere

One-time Blink-182 guitarist Mike Skiba played his first show with the band at a Los Angeles fire benefit this week at the Hollywood Palladium.

Tagged as: 90s, Alkaline Trio, Blink-182, Mike Skiba, punk, rock, USA

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The Amity Affliction Make Ahren Stringer Split Permanent

by Paul Cashmere

The Amity Affliction bass player Ahren Stringer is now permanently out of the band.

Tagged as: 00s, Ahren Stringer, Australia, metal, punk, The Amity Affliction, thrash

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Green Day, Soundwave 2014, Ros O'Gorman, Photo

Aussie Punk Band Private Function To Open For Green Day

by Paul Cashmere

Australian punk band Private Function have been chosen to open for Green Day’s 2025 The Saviors Australian tour.

Tagged as: 90s, AFI, Australian Tour, Green Day, Live Nation, Private Function, punk, USA

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New York Dolls’ David Johansen Is Being Treated for Stage 4 Brain Cancer

by Paul Cashmere

New York Dolls’ singer David Johansen has revealed he is suffering from Stage 4 brain cancer.

Tagged as: 70s, Buster Poindexter, David Johansen, New York Dolls, punk, Scrooged, USA

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WA’s Last Quokka To Release Take The Fight To The Bastards

by Paul Cashmere

Western Australia’s Last Quokka are heading out around Australia for shows with DZ Deathrays ahead of a new album in March.

Tagged as: 20s, Australia, Last Quokka, punk, Western Australia

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Patti Smith To Perform Horses Album Live

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Patti Smith is set to play a pair of London Palladium shows as part of a tour performing her seminal debut album ‘Horses’ in full.

Tagged as: 70s, Horses, Patti Smith, punk, USA

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Morrissey Reactivates For UK Dates

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Morrissey has announced his only UK and Ireland tour dates of 2025.

Tagged as: 80s, Morrissey, punk, The Smiths, UK

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The Saints ’73-’78 To Tour UK In November

by Paul Cashmere

Ed Kuepper and Ivor Hay will take the 2024 edition of The Saints into 2025 for the UK in November for (so far) five shows.

Tagged as: 70s, Australia, Brisbane, Ed Kuepper, Ivor Hay, Mudhoney, punk, The Saints, The Sunnyboys

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Vans Warped Tour Makes A Comeback With Simple Plan, Bowling For Soup and Pennywise

by Paul Cashmere

The Vans Warped Festival will return in 2025 for the first time since with Simple Plan, Bowling For Soup and Pennywise in a handful of first announced names.

Tagged as: 90s, Bowling For Soup, music festival, Pennywise, punk, Simple Plan, USA, Vans Warped

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