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On October 6, 1998, the ska-punk band Less Than Jake released 'Hello Rockview', their third studio album. The record includes their signature song, "All My Best Friends Are Metalheads."
Dave King is back. After a two-year hiatus due to health issues, the Flogging Molly frontman returned to the stage and performed "Anarchy in the U.K." alongside the Sex Pistols Featuring Frank Carter.
2 years ago, NOFX ended four decades of activity by playing their last concert in the band's history in San Pedro, California during the last edition of the Punk in Drublic Festival.
On October 5, 1999, No Use for a Name released 'More Betterness!', their fifth studio album. The record was released via the Fat Wreck Chords label. This is the second and final album featuring Chris Shiflett on lead guitar.
27 years ago, the Misfits released 'Famous Monsters'. It marked the band's second release following Glenn Danzig's departure and was the final album featuring Michale Graves, Dr. Chud, and Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, all of whom left the band in 2000 and 2001, respectively.
Whoops! 😅 I’ve been so busy preparing for the God Save the Queens 👑 and Mekons gigs that the 31st Birthday (September 30) of the X-Ray Spex sophomore album ‘Conscious Consumer’ 🧠 🛒 totally fell off my radar… 🎯
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Which is ironic as Paul Dean 🎸 and I 🎷 were reminiscing…
Misfits released their seventh, and to date, final studio album, 'The Devil's Rain', on October 4, 2011, through the band's own label, Misfits Records.
Lagwagon released 'Railer', their ninth album, on October 4, 2019, via Fat Wreck Chords. It was their first studio album in five years since 'Hang', released in 2014.
In memory of Kim Shattuck.
The iconic singer, guitarist, and songwriter of punk rock band The Muffs passed away on this day in 2019 at her home in Los Angeles at the age of 56, due to complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Happy 77th birthday, Richard Hell!
In 1973, he co-founded the band Television alongside guitarist Tom Verlaine. Two years later, he formed The Heartbreakers with Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan. In 1976, he assembled his definitive band, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.