Blondie are, and always will be, just ahead of the curve, constantly pushing around the bend and setting the direction as they go.
Rather than rely on what came before, the collective consistently focuses on what the future holds. The post-punk pioneering Rock and Roll Hall of Fame® inductees have shattered glass ceilings creatively and culturally since making the leap from New York’s gritty underground to the forefront of popular music. They’re the rare band whose presence has effortlessly extended from the heyday of CBGB to TikTok virality.
Punks at heart, they’ve never tried to adapt. Instead, the new wave icons naturally absorbed decades of inspiration, pulling styles as disparate as disco, funk, and hip-hop into their innovative signature sound. Since their emergence in 1974, they have sold millions of records worldwide and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame® in 2006. The GRAMMY® Hall of Fame inducted "Heart of Glass" in 2016. Beyond gracing Rolling Stone’s "500 Greatest Albums of All Time," NME's "100 Greatest Albums of All Time," and Pitchfork's "The Hundred Best Albums of the 1970s," the Library of Congress recognized the seminal Parallel Lines (1978) for preservation in the National Recording Registry.
Their influence can be felt across popular culture: Lady Gaga sports their shirts, Madonna professes her love for the band, Hayley Williams reenacts Debbie Harry's look, and Charli XCX collaborated with them on Pollinator (2017). Averaging over 14 million monthly listeners on Spotify, the musicians (Debbie Harry on vocals, Chris Stein on guitar, Leigh Foxx on bass, Glen Matlock on bass, Matt Katz-Bohen on keys, Tommy Kessler on guitar, Andee Blacksugar on guitar, and Clem Burke on drums) push the envelope on their twelfth full-length LP, High Noon.
It's an album where Latin stylings co-exist alongside tributes to sixties proto-psychedelia and dreamy vocals ripple across jagged riffing. High Noon channels the boundary-breaking spirit of smashes like "Heart of Glass," "Call Me," and "One Way Or Another" through five decades of experience and wisdom gained in the studio and on the road.