Nothing will ever touch the unique energy of 1970s punk rock music. Bands like Sex Pistols, The Ramones, and New York Dolls dominated the genre and delivered some pretty memorable hits. But even those ...

Speed, aggression, pace, sweat. These are words that leap to mind when people think of punk rock music—especially that of the 1970s. It was music that had a message and one that it just had to get out ...

Punk rock band the Dead Boys, left to right: singer Jake Hout, bassist Ricky Rat, guitarist Cheetah Chrome, drummer Johnny Blitz and guitarist Jason "Ginchy" Kottwitz. (Courtesy Jeff Fasano) A ...

It's a hard question, because I don't know exactly the moment that I became interested in punk. Sometime in my youth, much younger, like 12, 13, just looking for a community and some identity to ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2018. In the fall of 1978, the San Francisco punk scene was thriving. Shows occurred at least once a week at the Mabuhay Gardens, a Filipino ...

As co-founder and guitarist of the seminal new wave band Blondie, Chris Stein had an all-access pass to one of New York’s most exciting cultural periods. And now he’s offering a personal look at this ...

They called it X House. It was a big, dilapidated place in Northeast Portland. X marked the spot. John Shirley managed X House in exchange for a room, and he filled it with punk rockers. This was the ...