Released 33 years ago today
Fontanelle, the second studio album by Babes in Toyland, featuring this track 'Bruise Violet'

Reading Festival, August 27, 1993
Babes in Toyland - Bruise Violet

19 years ago today

The Cramps - Let's Get Fucked Up (Live in Norway 11.08.2006 - TV broadcast)

3 months before their last show at the Marquee Theater in Tempe, Arizona.

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43 years ago
Henry Rollins and HR, backstage at the Whisky a Go Go after a Bad Brains show, West Hollywood, August 1982

Photo by Glen E. Friedman

33 years ago today
Fontanelle is the second studio album and the first record on a major label (Reprise Records) by the American punk rock band Babes in Toyland, released on this day in 1992.

Released 44 years ago
Dance with Me, the first full-length album by T.S.O.L, featuring the Track Silent Scream

T.S.O.L. - Silent Scream (live for The Pyles Sessions)

48 years ago

ZigZag magazine, August 1977

43 years ago
Henry Rollins of Black Flag backstage at 688 Club, Atlanta, Georgia, August 1982.

Photos by Bryan Pritchard

44 years ago
Dance with Me is the first full-length album by the American punk band T.S.O.L. (True Sounds of Liberty), released in August 1981.

46 years ago
Teenage Warning is Angelic Upstarts' debut album, released in August 1979 and featured the titeltrack "Teenage Warning"

Angelic Upstarts - Teenage Warning - (Live at the Dome, Morecambe, UK, 1997)

37 years ago
Big Black played their final show in Seattle , August 1987.

Big Black - Bad Penny

48 years ago today
Generation X in London, August 9, 1977, as documented by Ray Stevenson

46 years ago
Teenage Warning is Angelic Upstarts' debut album, released in August 1979 and featured three singles, "The Murder of Liddle Towers", "I'm An Upstart" and "Teenage Warning

38 years ago
Big Black, the American punk rock band played their final show in Seattle in August 1987

Here the Band at Chicago's Union Station in 1986; left to right: Riley, Albini, and Durango

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> 40 years ago Tony Cadena of the Adolescents, Fenders Ballroom, Long Beach, CA, August 8, 1985. Photo by Alison Braun #punk #punks #punkrock #garagepunk #adolescents #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Plasmatics - Masterplan

Perkins Palace, June 17th, 1981

45 years ago today

The Greater London Council banned the Plasmatics from blowing up a car on stage during their UK debut at London's Hammersmith Odeon on August 8, 1980.

40 years ago
Tony Cadena of the Adolescents, Fenders Ballroom, Long Beach, CA, August 8, 1985.

Photo by Alison Braun

38 years ago
Brats in Battalions is the second studio album by American punk rock band The Adolescents, released in August 1987 after the band's 5-year breakup.

37 years ago today
Guy Picciotto falling out of a basketball hoop during a concert with his band Fugazi at Frankford YWCA, Philadelphia, August 7, 1988.

29 years ago today

The Ramones performed their 2,263rd and final show at The Palace, Hollywood, August 6, 1996

The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop (Last Show)