Brian Gorsegner, vocalist of Night Birds (who are currently on hiatus) and booking agent for a handful of punk bands, has also put together a new punk book called Ancient Artifax. As the title implies ...

The release of new punk book Ancient Artifax was celebrated at TV Eye in Ridgewood, NY on Saturday (8/3) with a special event featuring walls of memorabilia, a record and flyer pop-up, screen printing ...

MANY INSIST that Richard Hell invented punk, including Richard Hell himself—not so much the music, although his hands are pretty dirty in that regard. Rather, the New York musician and writer is more ...

Asked to name a punk rock musician, most people would by rote memory spit out the names of the members of the Ramones, Clash, or Sex Pistols. Those with a deeper aural reservoir might cough up the ...

At the beginning of the new anthology “Black Punk Now,” co-editor James Spooner recounts one of the first searches he did on a computer he bought in 2001. He googled the term “Black punk.” “There were ...

I f***ing hate the Clash now,” were the first words Chris Sullivan ever said to me, in the refectory at the Ralph West Hall of Residence in Albert Bridge Road, opposite Battersea Park, in August 1978.

According to everyone who saw them back in the ’80s, Swiz was a punch in the face. So why, at a crowded show in June, did the band’s music sound like amplified food processors whirring inside an empty ...

SANTA CRUZ — When one thinks of punk rock, there are a few tenets that come to mind: rebellion, anti-authoritarianism, social justice, DIY ethics, individualism and so on. Many would probably not ...