Classic rockers didn't take punk's insults lying down. Revisit three rock songs from 1977 that acted as a blockade to punk's ...

Punk‘s not dead, but it has evolved. Most notably, it’s evolved to include more women in the scene. This opens the door for those who write from a unique perspective that men just can’t capture. Here ...

Punk rock is usually understood as a 1970s genre. This ignores the fact that several 1960s bands were making music that could reasonably described as punk rock, including The Doors, Paul Revere & the ...

As pioneers of the punk rock movement, the Ramones helped establish the genre in the United States and the United Kingdom, ...

Although it took a long time for it to become established in the mainstream of the music industry, many albums define the early years of pop-punk. They stand out in the same way that some vital 10/10 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Damned are the greatest punk rock band of all-time, so logic would also have it, that they are also the greatest rock and roll band of all time. I write this because punk rock is the only genre of ...

This essay first appeared in the NPR Music newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this one, listening recommendations and more. The scene is one of the movie's best partly because actor ...