Mosswood Meltdown, Oakland's screwball music fest, is back and returning to its punk rock roots. Iggy Pop and Bikini Kill are set to headline the 2026 East Bay bash, and as always, John Waters, the ...

Social Distortion is proof that sometimes, you can go home again. As Mike Ness, frontman for the Orange County punk rock legends revealed, it wasn't always that way, when it came to Fullerton, ...

From Blink-182 and Green Day to Yellowcard and Paramore, many pop-punk bands have stolen the hearts of rock music lovers. Though the genre has slightly shifted as the years (or decades) have passed, ...

Outlaw country is a notable subgenre of country and western music that came to light in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was a pretty big deal at the time. Around that era, country music was quite ...

Punk Rock Bowling’s 25th edition had everything you could possibly want: ear-rattling riffs from some of the best punk bands in the scene, enough late-night club shows to keep the party going and an ...

Connecticut has been a bastion of punk rock since the punk movement first began in the 1970s. Historic clubs like Ron’s Place, Anthrax, The Night Shift and The Grotto in the 1970s and 1980s brought ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Maker Park Radio’s fifth annual Punk Rock Mini-Golf multi-day event tees off once again just in time for the start of the summer season. The station recently hosted its fourth ...

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 ...

Punk rock's big bang happened sometime around 1973, when the self-titled debut album from the New York Dolls was released. There were plenty of ripples before then — the Stooges, MC5, any number of ...

This weekend’s Punk in the Park festival in Denver may not be the smooth walk in the park that organizers expected after information linked to the promoter sparked an online petition calling for a ...

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