Billy Idol still loves screaming “more, more, more.” “You would think it would get boring, but no, actually, it's actually almost more exciting. It's a high that doesn't fade,” the bleach-blonde '80s ...
Brothers Frank, from left, Rikk and Alfie Agnew of the punk band Adolescents in front of the display that features their band at the "Punk OC — From the Streets of Suburbia" exhibit April 4 at the ...
Punk-rock nostalgia has an oxymoronic quality. Ah, the toasty, cozy good old days…of shooting up in the bathroom at CBGB as the Dead Boys lay waste to Western Civilization onstage. Sid Vicious, we ...
Don Letts has been at the right place at the right time a number of times in his life. He grew up in Brixton in South London, was friends with Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood in the mid-’70s, ...
The 12 near-perfect songs on "Germfree Adolescents," the 1978 debut album by X-Ray Spex, clock in at just over a half hour, but the shock waves they detonated keep rippling out 44 years later. One of ...
Girls just want to have a feature-length film made about their careers. Cyndi Lauper’s 30-year-plus career will be highlighted in the upcoming documentary “Let the Canary Sing.” The film will ...
Much like the aping of old Ramones tunes by new bands, punk documentaries often strike repeatedly at the same few chords. There's the ol' time capsule on punk's first wave of authentic outcasts and ...
At a Williamsburg recording studio, a song from the 1890s called "The Bowery" is being reworked by a band called The Derelicts. This isn’t just any group of musicians, but a who’s who from the ...
Gary Floyd, a founding member of the influential ‘80s punk rock band the Dicks, has passed away. He was 71. The Austin Chronicle reports Floyd was taken off life support after time in the hospital due ...
When the Ramones first performed “Blitzkrieg Bop” at CBGB some 44 years ago, no one could have imagined the song would be heard in virtually every stadium and in multiple TV spots for mainstream ...