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 ...

Being a great punk rock singer involves so much more than just hitting the notes. All of the genre’s great frontmen (and women) have embodied punk’s rebellious attitude. Regardless of their respective ...

Punk emerged in the 1970s as a reaction to the commercialization of mainstream rock music. The movement originated in the United States and the United Kingdom with bands like the Ramones and the Sex ...

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 ...

When it comes to the music journalism geography of ‘70s/’80s punk rock, most scribblings concentrate on the Holy Troika of New York, London, and Los Angeles. But in fact, Texas had a surprising (and ...

While Los Angeles bands like The Germs, The Go-Go’s, X, and Bad Religion drew the spotlight to Southern California’s punk rock scene, their iconic larger-than-life presence may have inadvertently cast ...