Some would say The Stooges were proto-punk and not actually punk rock. I say a band of their caliber can easily occupy two such definitions at once. And what would The Stooges be without the wild, ...

Have you noticed that guitars are back? I’m being a little facetious, but rock and even punk has has been steadily climbing its way back to the mainstream and we felt that more this year than we have ...

Rock fans can likely belt out this 1976 track's leading chant, which has not only become a punk rock anthem, but one often used at sporting events. In the mid '70s, the American punk rock band the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Punk rock music has always existed as the antithesis to commercially successful, mainstream music. It came to prominence in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smith's melding of music and poetry led the album to be tagged as one of the greatest of all time and reportedly as the first punk ...

In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk, pop punk, emo, hardcore, post-hardcore, ska-punk, and more, including and often especially the bands and albums and subgenres that ...