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1970s Punk

Early women in punk were mostly confined to a few roles: groupie, girlfriend or lead singer. There were a few all-girl bands, like the Runaways, but most 1970s bands were all-guy or one-girl.

Women who broke the mold included Anya Phillips, a fashion designer and impresario, and Vivienne Westwood, fashion designer and cofounder of the legendary London shop Sex. Westwood often dyed her hair then-unusual colors, like near-white blonde, and bright copper.



1980s Punk

For other punk girls and women, black hair was the name of the game. Joan Jett, Siouxsie Sioux, Exene Cervenka and Lydia Lunch all had jet-black hair with bangs and layers framing the face. Jett wore hers in a mullet.

In the mid-80s, Kat Bjelland and Courtney Love, who were then about 20 years old, took after Nancy Spungen, by dying their hair platinum blonde and putting it into ringlets. They also started wearing plastic bows and clips in their hair, to accentuate their kinderwhore aesthetic.

1980s punk hairstyles were fairly high maintenance. Big hair, spiky hair, and long hair was in. With the possible exception of skinheads, girl punks paid a lot of attention to their hair.

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First, Napter emerged and would forever change the way people got their music. Although Napster was forced to shut down, several copycats resurfaced. Since then, iTunes, MySpace, ringtones, and peer-2-peer networks would forever change the music industry as we know it. Record stores became less relevant to the point that they barely exist today and digital downloading seems to be the only way to music profitability. No longer would consumers need to leave the comfort of their homes to buy music and could simply do so online. As a result, the traditional music business model became a thing of the past, and label executives today are scrambling to put their pulse on the beat and monetize in this digital music world.

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Music download sites are one of the biggest businesses online nowadays. According to market research, digital music sales have grown by 300 percent from the previous year. This speaks a lot about the popularity and choice of online music download sites over other offline methods to download new music or just about any music video and music downloads. There is quite a handful of music download sites that let you download new music and music videos so it can get a bit confusing. Read on to find out more about selection of music download sites - where to download new music and music videos.

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With so many new products being launched at Musik Messe in Frankfurt, it can become difficult to separate out the best new products to come out of Europe's biggest music retail trade show. We've taken some of the strain by picking our top five of the new tech products that were launched this year.

Roland Jupiter 80
Roland's world-famous SuperNATURAL sound engine technology is at the heart of the Jupiter 80 and together with the 76 key touchscreen-driven externals combines to give the customer the analogue modelling and digital synthesis that they have come to expect from Roland. The sound engine feeds back on the player's technique to produce a real performance sound whether in the studio or on stage. And with a huge range of realistic acoustic instruments to play with and SuperNATURAL's seamless note-to-note expression, musicians will love Roland's new offering.