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 ...

The hype about punk rock has always been that anyone can do it. This has resulted in misguided notions that musicianship is absent from punk. Truth be told, you only stand out in this scene if you can ...

Las Vegas — It used to be that if a visitor to Las Vegas wanted a taste of punk rock while they were in town, they had two options: Ask a punk if any local bands were playing at the Double Down Saloon ...

Brothers Shawn and Mark Stern were already veteran punk rockers when they started Punk Rock Bowling 25 years ago. But they had no idea they were in the midst of a seminal moment by launching what ...

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 ...

Whether it’s trying to capture the anthemic conquests of the Sex Pistols‘ “Anarchy in the U.K.” and The Clash’s “I Fought the Law,” the more ragged vandal nature of The Adverts’ “Bored Teenagers,” or ...

Punk rock would never escape society’s accusations of ineptitude. To mainstream ears, the music was ugly — tuneless, arhythmic, untalented. Worst of all, the vocalists couldn’t sing. How could that ...