On paper, punk has little in common with hard rock. In its infancy, it rejected corporate bands, guitar solos, concept albums, and similar bloat that plagued the biggest artists of the 1970s. But some ...
Rock music from the 1980s sounded very different from the rebellious hard rock of the 1970s. And that's not a bad thing at ...
The February roundup of our punk column ‘In Defense of the Genre’ includes recent news, reviews, and features, along with a list of the best songs of the month.
Punk rock music has always existed as the antithesis to commercially successful, mainstream music. It came to prominence in the 1960s and '70s as a genre defined by its rebellious spirit, and artists ...
As pioneers of the punk rock movement, the Ramones helped establish the genre in the United States and the United Kingdom, reviving rock music from the popular styles and bringing it back to basics.
Rebel girls and rude boys, this one’s for you: tonight’s Punk Rock Karaoke invites everyone to sing along with his or her favorite songs for a good cause, as the Denver Health Collective hosts a ...
Even before the Sex Pistols imploded, the punk rock formula was already being spliced and dissected up North, re-imagined as something less merchandise-minded.
Punk rock music has always existed as the antithesis to commercially successful, mainstream music. It came to prominence in the 1960s and '70s as a genre defined by its rebellious spirit, and artists ...
In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk, pop punk, emo, hardcore, post-hardcore, ska-punk, and more, including and often especially the bands and albums and subgenres that ...