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

In the mid-’70s, rock got usurped by punk. Though rock, as a broad definition, had gone through many changes up unto that point, it still had a recognizability about it. Punk was something completely ...

In this reading, 1977 wasn’t just when punk broke but also the year for chancers to take a chance. A similarly minded lot were Manchester’s The Drones who, along with the previous three bands, also ...

While dwelling in disparate ends of the punk spectrum, both Billy Idol and Henry Rollins lauded one key 1977 release as ...

In an age when the compact disc has been pushed aside by downloads and streaming, the time, effort, and expense of putting together a CD box set might seem like an exercise in futility, of blind ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a crop-haired angry young man myself, I can't recall ever wasting a minute of 1976, '77 or '78 thinking about how much I hated ...

A year-by-year walk through of the 40 best punk albums since the release of Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols in 1977. Punk rock was never meant to live as long as it has. It was meant ...

Two very different histories of punk help to explain why the controversial movement changed so many young people’s lives Nothing could be less punk than commemorating its 40th anniversary. The late ...

Robin Denselow charts the new wave of British punk culture, from The Damned at Stiff Records to The Stranglers and The Vibrators The British music business has started the year by trying to come to ...

If “post-punk” seems an all-too-literal name for a musical movement, maybe that is because it wasn’t a musical movement at all. Even as a time frame, “post-punk” can be a misleading term. Much of the ...

On Monday, Rolling Stone released a brand-new ranking of the 100 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time, and nobody was surprised to see The Clash break into the top five. What was surprising, however, was ...