On paper, punk has little in common with hard rock. In its infancy, it rejected corporate bands, guitar solos, concept albums, and similar bloat that plagued the biggest artists of the 1970s. But some ...

Rock and roll has a long history with dance music. Danceable beats gave early rock tunes their rhythm, while Chubby Checker’s ...

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 ...

Have you noticed that guitars are back? I’m being a little facetious, but rock and even punk has has been steadily climbing its way back to the mainstream and we felt that more this year than we have ...

Punk rock music has always existed as the antithesis to commercially successful, mainstream music. It came to prominence in the 1960s and '70s as a genre defined by its rebellious spirit, and artists ...

Rebel girls and rude boys, this one’s for you: tonight’s Punk Rock Karaoke invites everyone to sing along with his or her favorite songs for a good cause, as the Denver Health Collective hosts a ...

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac and The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd are among the absolute best, most perfect classic rock ...

The members of Ultrabomb all hail from notable bands from past decades, but this band is not about nostalgia. The Minneapolis-born trio, made up of Greg Norton of Hüsker Dü on bass and backing vocals, ...

Looking at five prime examples of pioneering, rebellious anthems that predicted the sound and attitude of the punk revolution ...

Here's the best pop-punk album of each year of the 1990s. The '90s saw pop-punk emerge from small clubs and underground ...