Siouxsie Sioux initially aspired to be a football journalist. Before her music career, she attended secretarial college, aiming to become a writer or journalist. Her passion for music, however, led her to become a key figure in post-punk and gothic rock.
April 30, 1976, The Who's drummer Keith Moon famously paid nine New York City taxi drivers $100 each to block off both ends of the street outside the Hotel Navarro. This allowed him to safely throw the furniture, television, and other contents of his hotel room onto the street below without injuring pedestrians, according to History Hits and Far Out Magazine.
Can - Vitamin C
A relentless warning about losing your spark, powered by the octopoid brilliance of Jaki. Slightly unhinged, utterly unstoppable; Eurofunkadelia for the mind and body alike.
1972.
During the Tour de France in the 1960s, riders would stop at shops along the way and take whatever they wanted without paying; typically any type of alcohol was the target
On this day in 1976, #The101ers and #SexPistols performed at The Nashville Rooms, London. It was the beginning of the end for Joe Strummer in The 101ers, and Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood got into a brawl.
Pics: Joe Stevens
Various - The Harder They Come (OST)
My album of the day. One of the baddest soundtracks of them all. Joyous, street-level, faintly lawless songs of defiance, poverty and hope; Jamaican music with grit and spirit, announcing itself to the world.
1972.
🎧 Johnny Too Bad
I’m incredibly happy to learn that Gram Parsons is a 2026 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as an early influence! With the International Submarine Band, the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and as a solo musician, his role in the early development of … (1/2)