Fire on Marlborough Street

During a Fire Escape Collapse in Boston, U.S.A. (1975)

On July 22, 1975, photograph Stanley J. Forman working for the Boston Herald American newspaper when a police scanner picked up an emergency: “Fire on Marlborough Street!”
Climbed on a fire truck, Forman shot the picture of Diana Bryant (19 years old) and her goddaughter, Tiare Jones (2 years old) when they fell helplessly. Diana Bryant was pronounced dead at the scene. The young girl lived. Despite a heroic effort, the fireman who tried to grab them had been just seconds away from saving the lives of both.

Photo coverage from the tragic event garnered Stanley Forman a Pulitzer Prize. But more important, his work paved the way for Boston and other states to mandate tougher fire safety codes.


The German post-punk band Abwärts use this photo for the cover of their first album "Amok Koma" back in 1980.

Child with Toy Hand Grenade

Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, New York City, U.S.A (1962)

The picture above was taken by the famous photographer Diane Arbus. It shows a boy*, with the left strap of his jumper awkwardly hanging off his shoulder, tensely holding his long, thin arms by his side. Clenched in his right hand is a toy grenade, and his left hand is held in a claw-like gesture; his facial expression is maniacal. Arbus captured this photograph by having the boy stand while moving around him, claiming she was trying to find the right angle. The boy became impatient and told her to "Take the picture already!" His expression conveys his exasperation and impatience with the whole endeavor, as the contact sheet for the shoot reveals. In other pictures, he is seen as a happy child.


The photograph was used, without permission, on the first version of the cover of the debut LP ".. And No One Else Wanted To Play" by Canadian punk band S.N.F.U. in 1984, and had to be replaced with drawing in subsequent editions because of copyright infringement.


The image is also used on the cover of American indie rock band Cloud Cult's debut album "Who Killed Puck?" and on the cover of the sametitled EP from 1984 of the hardcore/punk band from Netherlands called No Pigs.

An original print of the photograph sold for $408,000 in April 2005.

* The boy in the photograph is Colin Wood, son of tennis player Sidney Wood. An interview with Colin, with his recollections about Arbus taking this photograph, is presented in the BBC documentary "The Genius of Photography".

Punks are breaking!

In 1984 the greek newspapers of the time discover the "new enemy within". The Punks.



The occasion were the incidents that took place out of the Α.Σ.Ο.Ε.Ε. (High School of Economics and Commercial Sciences) in the centre of Athens, because the live solidarity concert that was going to take place for the anarchists that were in prison that time, cancelled by members of Κ.Ν.Ε. (Communist Youth of Greece).



The next day the articles of the press essentially heralding the attacks that would follow by the police and the goverment to the Exarchia Square's youth with the famous "virtue operations" (επιχειρήσεις αρετής).


"And now the...Sioux. Exarchia; after the drugs and anarchists, punks came with the shaved heads", the title of a terrorlust article of a newspaper in 14th of September 1984."...with the hair cut like a brush, usually dyed with different colours, scaring the elderly, throwing beer bottles and pissing anywhere".

Generation X - 1978 - s/t

Generation X (also known as Gen X) originally formed in 1976 in London, England by three ex-Chelsea members. They played their first gig on 21 December 1976 at Roxy club (becoming one of the very first punk bands to play at the venue). They were one of the first punk bands to play at BBC music programme Top Of The Pops.

Unlike the other punk bands, they ignored some of the "rules" and "ideals" adopted by UK punk bands, taking inspiration of British pop of the 60's.

Their singer Billy Idol is better known from his later pop period.

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Massappeal - Nobody Likes A Thinker

"How did it begin? Well, i'd like to say that we met under dark, lurid circumstances, almost too painful to tell, but, alas, it all began for me on a sunny da, with birds chirping cheerfully in the trees, looking down upon three naive lads in a skate park." That's what Randy Reinmann (Vocals) says about the beggining of the band called Massappeal.

They formed in 1985 in Sydney, Australia and they are one of the most intense live experience there, back in the late 80's and early 90's.
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They were listening to bands like Black Flag, Bad Brains, Verbal Abuse, The Exploited, Blitz and Discharge, so the music they were playing was a mix of thrashy hardcore/punk sounds.

Raw energy, fast and intense music. Just play it loud!

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Genre: Hardcore/Punk/Thrash

Country: Australia

Label: Relapse Records

Size: 70 mb

Bitrate: 128 kbps
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The Mob - Let The Tribe Increase

The Mob were formed in Yeovil, Somerset, England, in 1979, just as the UK anarcho-punk scene was taking shape.

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From out in the dark hills this group arrived at an extreme and unique sound: they were menacing and brooding, with extremely dark music and words with none of speed or spectacle of their contemporaries.

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They played the infamous Zig Zag squat gig with Crass in 1982 and they broke up after playing their last show in November of 1983 at the Doncaster Co-op Hall.

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Here we have a compilation with their "Let The Tribe Increase" LP (1983) and the singles "Witch Hunt" (1980), "Crying Again" (1980), "No Doves Fly Here" (1981) and "The Mirror Breaks" (1983).
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Enjoy!

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Genre: Anarcho-Punk

Country: England

Label: Broken Rekids

Size: 65 mb

Bitrate: 128 kbps

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M.I.A. - Lost Boys

M.I.A. was a punk band from Orange County, California and they were formed in the early 80's. Their music were influenced by The Sex Pistols, The Damned, Buzzcocks, Ramones, The Decline, Circle Jerks , Germs, Black Flag , T.S.O.L and others.

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In 1984 they signed a deal with Alternative Tentacles label, after the label's founder and Dead Kennedys' frontman Jello Biafra, saw them play at a secret illegal punk nightclub in Las Vegas.

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In 2001 "Lost Boys" released, which is a 37-song retrospective of the band's work, including "Last Rites" split LP (1982), "Murder in a foreign place" LP (1984) and several additional tracks.

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Genre: Hardcore/Punk

Country: U.S.A.

Label: Alternative Tentacles

Size: 66 mb

Bitrate: 128 kbps

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And the story goes like this..

"We are Dying", in front of the parliament.

Wednesday, 23th February, 2011. General Strike with demonstrations all over the Greece, because of the new measures that the goverment announced. Reduction in salaries and pensions, increases in tickets for the public transportation, unemployment, privitizations and clearance sale of the public property - among other reasons - led people to resist, because the future is inauspicious.

Around 100.000 workers, pensioners and students marched to protest austerity policies and they clashed with the cops, when they tried to disperse them.

Some photos below:

The Zero Point - Hooligans With Cheap Guitars

The Zero Point is one of Denmark's oldest and longest running punk bands. They formed in 1979 in Aarhus and their influences were among others Sex Pistols, Ramones, Damned, Stiff Little Fingers, Dead Boys, G.B.H. and lots of ale & whiskey, as they say.

Here we have all their early stuff. Get it!

Genre: Punk

Country: Denmark

Label: GTA

Size: 66 mb

Bitrate: 128 kbps

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Babylon's Burning: The Rough 'n' Ready Rise Of Punk Rawk 1973-1978 - Disc 2

This is the second part of this fuckin' series. Click here for the first part.

Genre: Early Punk Rock
Label: Sanctuary
Size: 64 mb
Bitrate: 128 kbps

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