Birthdays
1952 Tommy Ramone (The Ramones)
1953 Peter Baumann (Tangerine Dream)
1954 Richard Manitoba (The Dictators)
1960 JG Thirlwell (Foetus; Wiseblood; Steroid Maximus)
1961 David Bayton-Power (James)
1964 Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera)
1964 Marcus Vere (Living In A Box)
News
1979 Sixteen-year-old Brenda Spencer killed two people and wounded nine others when she fired from her house across the street onto the entrance of San Diego’s Grover Cleveland Elementary School, with a rifle her father had given her for Christmas. When asked why she did it, she replied “I don’t like Mondays.’ The Boomtown Rats went on to write and recorded a song based on the event.
1995 Ken Jensen, drummer for Canadian punk band D.O.A., died in a house fire aged 25.
Album releases
1990 Lightning Seeds – Cloudcuckooland
1991 The Specials – The Singles Collection
1991 Jesus Jones – Doubt
1991 Screaming Trees – Uncle Anesthesia
1991 Divinyls – diVINYLS
1996 LFO -Advance
2007 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Some Loud Thunder
2008 The Mars Volta – Bedlam in Goliath
2008 Chris Walla – Field Manual
2008 Xiu Xiu -Women as Lovers
2008 Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
2013 Tomahawk – Oddfellows
2016 Bloc Party – Hymns
2016 Blaue Blume – Syzygy
2021 The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
2021 Ani DiFranco – Revolutionary Love
2021 Black Pistol Fire – Look Alive
Singles and EP releases
1977 Buzzcocks – Spiral Scratch (EP)
2021 Martin Gore – The Third Chimpanzee