The pop punk craze of the late '90s and early 2000s delivered an array of bands who scored major radio hits before quickly ...

Punk rock’s first wave didn’t last very long. It burned out nearly as quickly as the short songs of its most famous bands. But the scene wasn’t limited to what happened over a few years in the mid-70s ...

On paper, punk has little in common with hard rock. In its infancy, it rejected corporate bands, guitar solos, concept albums, and similar bloat that plagued the biggest artists of the 1970s. But some ...

The first music I ever bought with my own money was a trio of singles that I loved when I was eleven years old. It was 1973. I went down to the local record store and picked “Brandy” by Looking Glass ...

Las Vegas punk rock band Crimson Riot has announced its first full album in nearly six years. Their new record, Third Time’s ...

Rebel girls and rude boys, this one’s for you: tonight’s Punk Rock Karaoke invites everyone to sing along with his or her favorite songs for a good cause, as the Denver Health Collective hosts a ...

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 ...

There was something in the air at Punk Rock Bowling in Las Vegas last weekend. No, it wasn’t the sound of distorted guitars, punk rockers puking or Nazis getting punched in the face. Though there was ...