Live music is back: Here's where to go in June
30 events that signal the start of summer and the return of the local music scene in Madison
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30 events that signal the start of summer and the return of the local music scene in Madison
Bandcamp Alongside Austin's Dicks and Big Boys, Houston's Really Red proved as integral to early-Eighties American punk culture as Black Flag or Dead Kennedys. Lasting 1978-85, the aggregation of singer/frontman Ronnie "U-Ron Bondage" Bond, drummer Bob Weber, guitarist Kelly Younger, and bassist John Paul Williams rarely followed regulation punk templates. Old enough to recall Texas psychedelia on ramalama like "Crowd Control," their trace elements of art-damaged funk and blues seeped into – from 1981 onward – the band's ballistic thrashing à la Bad Brains on tracks such as "I Was a Te...