During a 1987 interview with Anthony DeCurtis (per George Harrison on George Harrison: Interviews and Encounters), George explained what he thought about the punk movement. He said he kept his head ...

On January 31, John Lydon will turn 68. Perhaps better known as Johnny Rotten, the frontman for the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd may not be the most obvious choice for last man standing among the ...

Costello isn’t considered the most punk artist ever, which made him an easy entry point for those who couldn’t get into the ...

No major act in pop music had a career so brief and lurid as did the Sex Pistols. From their first gig in November 1975 to their dissolution was a span of just 26 months. They brought with them a ...

The feminist punk movement in the Pacific Northwest was catalyzed by a Latina. Mia Zapata, a Mexican-American punk rocker living in Seattle in the early 1990s, played a key role in shaping the nascent ...

A tiny shop in 1970s London, in neon pink letters, shouted to passersby: SEX. The shop, covered in graffiti and barbed wire, sold fetish gear and bondage kits. But it also collected people: Vivienne ...

Getting a consistent definition of Afro-punk isn't easy. Everyone seems to have their own take on it. For purists, it refers to blacks in the punk rock subculture. For broader thinkers, it is a ...

It’s after midnight in Jakarta and, below a highway overpass, a party is just getting started. Students and the unemployed are listening to well-worn cassette tapes, swigging from bottles filled with ...

Adorning the walls of Georgetown University’s Spagnuolo Gallery is a variety of cultural memorabilia commemorating one of the most influential cultural and political movements in Washington, D.C.’s ...

Beyond the punk explosion, 1977 was a kaleidoscopic year of disco fever, prog ambition, funk, soul and the birth of ...

EXCLUSIVE: Documentary Wake Up Punk had its world premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival last month and will release in the UK and Ireland on May 9 via Republic Film Distribution. Punk icon Vivienne ...

If ever there was a genre of music that begged for attention — both good and bad — it’d be punk rock. And the first thing that a burgeoning punk band has to get you in its grips is awesome album art.