Punk rock's big bang happened sometime around 1973, when the self-titled debut album from the New York Dolls was released. There were plenty of ripples before then — the Stooges, MC5, any number of ...

Punk rock didn’t hit its peak until the mid-’70s, but the groundwork was laid much earlier. The first murmurings of punk happened in the ’60s. Many rockers were leaving behind all sense of innocence, ...

When it comes to the music journalism geography of ‘70s/’80s punk rock, most scribblings concentrate on the Holy Troika of New York, London, and Los Angeles. But in fact, Texas had a surprising (and ...

New York’s fabled punk scene is alive and kicking at Ki Smith Gallery, where “50 years of PUNK” is honoring the rag that started it all through January 11—the very day that the first issue of PUNK ...

Out of the various countercultures, punk, by design, has remained on the fringe by embracing anti-establishment views, which to a degree extends to television. At the same time, the history of the ...

While Los Angeles bands like The Germs, The Go-Go’s, X, and Bad Religion drew the spotlight to Southern California’s punk rock scene, their iconic larger-than-life presence may have inadvertently cast ...

Connecticut has been a bastion of punk rock since the punk movement first began in the 1970s. Historic clubs like Ron’s Place, Anthrax, The Night Shift and The Grotto in the 1970s and 1980s brought ...