Another true collectable gift from Rave Up Records!

The Front were formed on Miami Beach in 1980.

Mid-seventies Boston and a new local music scene was being forged in defiant opposition to tired arena acts and disco.

Howlin’ from Bloomington, Indiana, The Gynecologists were probably one of the most outrageous and repellent punk bands ever.

A San Francisco old school punk band, the Nubs are famous for their 1980 underground hit “Job”.

Hailing from Fresno, CA, NBJ have been one of the best kept secrets of American punk rock.

Inspired by the ‘77 Punk pages of Creem and Rolling Stone magazines, four suburban Detroit high school journalism classmates fashioned themselves into a band.

In 1980, Detroit’s LUKE MUCUS & THE PHLEGM morphed into the more user-friendly LUKE WARM, catching the New Wave/Power Pop bug.

Guitarists Mike Enright and Byron Stevens met drummer Curt Gary at the University of Cincinnati in the early 70s.

Skopje, North Macedonia: hometown not only of Mother Teresa, but also of Fol Jazik - the first Macedonian punk rock band ever!

1978, Birmingham UK: Mike Cooper (vocals), Rob Peters (drums), Chris Ames (guitar), Rob Rampton (bass) form a band called Dangerous Girls.

From the original demo tapes that in 1979 secured them a record deal with Small Wonder come 13 studio tracks by UK post punk band English Subtitles.

Blaue Reiter was a seminal post punk band from Alessandria, not so far from Turin. They appeared in autumn 1982 on the compilation “Gathered” edited by “Rockerilla”, who at the time was the leading magazine for anyone interested in the new rock trends.

Roland TR-808 drum machine samples arranged in syncopated rhythm patterns often resembling the Funk breaks with simple, funky basslines…

Minimal synth band part of the Italian wave and post-punk scene.

Luc Orient was formed in Trieste in 1981 by Alessandro Corda (former keyboard player of Revolver, one of the first punk bands in Italy), Rrok Prennushi (guitar) and Piero Pieri (vocals).

System 56 was a band from Cleveland, Ohio, formed by Steve Simenic in the winter of 1981-82 through a series of Musicians Wanted ads in Cleveland’s local entertainment weekly - SCENE MAGAZINE.

“Incredible but true!”, cioè “incredible ma vero!”. Queste le parole scritte a mano sulla costina di una cassetta Basf che conservavo in archivio da quando Chris Bianco me la affidò, ere geologiche fa: nulla di meglio per intitolare un album contenente incisioni con quarantaquattro anni sulle spalle di una band che in vita non aveva pubblicato nulla.

Psychotic and hopeless rock’n’roll punk from the outskirts of Bologna (Italy) as were in the 80s american suburbs.

Finally out on Rave Up records, one of the greatest new italian punk rock bands.

Rave up records is proud to presents the new rock’n’roll sensation from Rome!

“Noi conquisteremo la Luna” ripropone tutti gli articoli, le recensioni e le interviste sul post-punk italiano firmati dal decano Federico Guglielmi fra il 1980 e il 1985, con appena un pizzico di editing per salvaguardare lo spirito entusiastico e naif dell’epoca.

Hunter were formed during the summer of ‘79 in the Isle Of Wight.

YES, IT’S TRUE… AN ENTIRE STUDIO SESSION RECORDED IN 1979!!! THE ITALIAN BAND HOLY GRAIL FOR WORLWIDE PUNK ROCK COLLECTORS IS FINALLY OUT ON VINYL!!!

Big Star Rolling is proud to present, from Treviso, one of the first punk band in Italy!

Blackout Records rediscovered 10 original studio tracks recorded between 1977 and 1982 by the original Washington DC punks! Strongly influenced by UK glam, US proto-punk and golden age hard rock, this is a true missing link between the best tradition of American rock’n’roll and the energy of British punk rock of those days!!!