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 ...

Extensive. Exhaustive. Thorough. Comprehensive. A clear labor of love and an earnest effort to document what seems like every single band who emerged from the Miami underground rock & roll scene from ...

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 ...

Starting out as a jazz-rock group called Mind Power in 1976, they changed direction entirely when original vocalist Sid ...

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 ...

In this episode of the Highlights Podcast, Alexander Herbert, a PhD candidate in the history department, discusses his book, What About Tomorrow?: An Oral History of Russian Punk from the Soviet Era ...

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 ...

The Monroe County History Center will host Streetdance Rewind, a free outdoor punk music festival, at 5 p.m. on June 29 on Sixth Street in front of the History Center. The event is happening in ...