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 ...
These bands had zero hits on the Hot 100 in the 1970s, but that didn't stop them from gaining huge followings among the ...
On this day 19 years ago, the iconic New York City music club CBGB, famous for its role in the punk rock and new wave scene, ...
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 ...
Punk rock's big bang happened sometime around 1973, when the self-titled debut album from the New York Dolls was released. There were plenty of ripples before then — the Stooges, MC5, any number of ...
In the burgeoning late 1970s punk scene in New York, there were dozens of bands, maybe even a hundred, as the decade moved ...
With the Beatles a thing of the past and the counterculture revolution aging into different forms of expression, rock music in the 1970s evolved into an even more sophisticated and album-oriented art ...
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 ...
Black alternative music has always thrived in the in-between, turning misfit energy into an expressive movement. From Detroit ...
The Huntsville Museum of Art will host "Days of Punk" by Michael Grecco, showcasing over 100 photos that capture the 70s and ...
In the early 1980s, at the peak of the punk rock scene in Fullerton, the interest and demand for punk in Orange County reached a boiling point during one particular TSOL show at Fullerton College. The ...