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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 ...
It can be argued that punk rock started in the '60s, when a bunch of kids holed up in a garage, bashed out two chords on their guitars and shouted into a taped-together microphone. But for our ...
Has punk ever really, truly been dead? Since the genre’s eruption in the late ‘70s, it’s birthed not only wave after wave of bands both good and bad, but also endless hours of public panic surrounding ...
Editor’s note: This is the third chapter in a serialized history of Austin’s punk culture, written by veteran journalist Tim Stegall. Chapter 1, documenting how a collaboration between Roky Erickson ...
In October, the same music weekly’s Bob Edmands pondered their second single, “Nasty Nasty.” “The words and riff hurtle past at a preposterous speed, so fast that all concerned seem to have lost ...
Punk emerged in the 1970s as a reaction to the commercialization of mainstream rock music. The movement originated in the United States and the United Kingdom with bands like the Ramones and the Sex ...
Eater’s first single has become the opening track of Just Want To Be Myself: UK Punk Rock 1977–1979, a 32-track double album which almost – as some of the tracks aren’t really punk – does what its ...