On Friday night inside the House of Blues in Dallas, Amyl and the Sniffers ferociously proved why we might be in a new golden age for punk music. IDLES have fashioned themselves as both a box office ...
It was around the turn of the 21st century when pop punk music really started to hit the mainstream. Bands like Blink-182 and artists like Avril Lavigne really put the fun, energetic genre into the ...
Punks are easily enough identified–especially in their heyday. With its trademarked leather jackets, grungy boots, and piercings, punk was the defiant younger brother of classic rock. What Elvis ...
This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene. Let’s not frame this as a rebirth. Transgender ...
BALTIMORE, Md. — It’s hard to put the band Pinkshift into a box, and that’s exactly how they want it to be. Through sheer kismet and a little pushing, Ashrita Kumar, Paul Vallejo, and Myron Houngbedji ...
Punk music is known for its raw, aggressive sound, edgy fashion and mosh pits. It’s also known for being predominantly white, but that's changed a lot in recent years. Resurfaced music from its ...
LONDON (Reuters) - British punk band The King Blues, who drew inspiration from anti-government demonstrations and were at the forefront of a political protest movement in pop music, have split, they ...
Fans love to debate the first punk band. Kinks or Kingsmen? Or did they have too much proto in their punk and it really didn’t start until the Dolls or the Damned came along a decade later? Doesn’t ...