Nov. 20, 1980, after-dinner hour: England’s eyes were focused on Top Of The Pops, BBC’s long-running pop program, as they had every Thursday evening since the first day of 1964. In the middle of the ...

Punk’s not dead. But it has been around long enough to belong in a museum. Which is why there’s big excitement about the opening this month in Las Vegas of the world’s first museum dedicated to the ...

There’s no denying the boys made a lot of noise. But foundationally, punk is female. A new exhibition opening in London ...

The guitar emerges in a blur. The outburst only lasts a second or two before the rest of the band kicks in as abruptly. Someone calls “Out of vogue” repeatedly, as lead singer Jeff Atta responds, “We ...

In the new book Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World, authors Nate Jackson and Daniel Kohn get in the pit with influential bands like Social Distortion, ...

A punk rock museum might seem like an oxymoron, like a total abdication of what “punk rock” is supposed to mean and signify. The Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas makes perfect sense, though. Nobody ...

Do you remember the first time you heard the “punk beat”? Maybe it was via Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, or watching one of blink-182’s first singles on MTV. Before that? The pioneering early-years output ...

Fashion and style are elastic terms in meaning, but here, in relation to punk, the former refers to the industry-derived haute couture manifestation of attire, the latter to its more general popular ...

On the last page of “The Secret History of Black Punk: Record Zero,” Raeghan Buchanan shares her reasons for writing the comic, released last month via indie publisher Silver Sprocket. The artist and ...

Many bands have been formed after would-be members started toying around with the idea of what they would name themselves. A good band name embodies a group’s sound, but members also have to consider ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...