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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: 14 Important Canadian Punk Bands
Description: We’ve all heard the stories about where punk came from…the New York Dolls and a few other bands start playing in a crappy area of New York that attracted musicians, artists, and degenerates with low rent…
This leads to the opening of CBGB, a club that becomes the centre of a music scene that gave a home to bands like television, Blondie, The Talking Heads, The Heartbreakers, and, most importantly, The Ramones…
In July 1976, The Ramones fly to London and play a show attended by curious kids who then either continue on with their pu...