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• Punk rock bands that inspired us: The Dwarves

  by Rocco September 3, 2010
  While most classic punk bands released their best albums during their early years, there are several examples of more recent punk rock bands who had been around for a decade by the time they came up with their best material. There’s the Offspring, there’s Bankrupt, and there are the Dwarves. Continu...

• Punk rock bands that inspired us: Descendents

  by Rocco September 1, 2010
  The Descendents were the Buzzcocks‘ equivalent on the early American hardcore punk scene: they were a lot more melodic than their contemporaries, and they were fronted by a nerd. But they were much more than that. They invented melodic hardcore (or melodycore), paving the way for NOFX, No Use For a ...

• Punk rock bands that inspired us: Buzzcocks

  by Rocco August 27, 2010
  The great thing about punk was that finally even totally uncool weirdos like the guys from the Buzzcocks got a chance to form a band and get on stage. And they proved that losers write the best pop punk songs. They formed in Bolton, near Manchester in 1976. Their early output featuring Howard Devoto...

• Punk rock bands that inspired us: The Stranglers

  by Rocco August 26, 2010
  The Stranglers were strikingly different from any other band on the ’77 British punk scene. They were older (Jet Black, the drummer was 39 years-old in 1977), they had a keyboard player who looked like a shepherd, and their karate freak bass player, JJ Burnel was beating up everybody who pissed him ...

• Punk rock bands that inspired us: The Clash

  by Rocco August 24, 2010
  The Clash have always been a major inspiration for us. They were the coolest band on the ’77 British punk scene with their catchy melodies, smart lyrics, immense energy, and picture perfect urban guerilla image. They invented the punk version of reggae, so that 23 years later we could write a song c...

• Punk rock bands that inspired us: The Ramones

  by Rocco August 20, 2010
  This is gonna be a series of posts about punk rock bands that inspired us throughout the years. Who else could we start with if not the Ramones?The Ramones were the first punk band ever, starting out in Queens, New York as early as 1974, and the mastermind was a Hungarian guy (Tommy Ramone). They in...