Speed, aggression, pace, sweat. These are words that leap to mind when people think of punk rock music—especially that of the 1970s. It was music that had a message and one that it just had to get out ...
In this episode of the Highlights Podcast, Alexander Herbert, a PhD candidate in the history department, discusses his book, What About Tomorrow?: An Oral History of Russian Punk from the Soviet Era ...
Punk rock music—that blistering, snarling, enlivening style—has exhilarated audiences for some 50 years now. What rose to prominence in the mid-1970s has become a sound for the generations. Never ...
These 20 photos capture the chaos, charisma, and confrontational spirit of punk rock in its most authentic form. From iconic bands to unforgettable street style. Step into the sweat-soaked clubs, back ...
With the Beatles a thing of the past and the counterculture revolution aging into different forms of expression, rock music in the 1970s evolved into an even more sophisticated and album-oriented art ...
Punk emerged in the 1970s as a reaction to the commercialization of mainstream rock music. The movement originated in the United States and the United Kingdom with bands like the Ramones and the Sex ...
One of the most famous artists who took on the mantle of classic rock during the 1970s was The Eagles’ Don Henley. The 1970s were also the decade of punk rock. Henley felt that punk rock had some deep ...
Punk rock is usually understood as a 1970s genre. This ignores the fact that several 1960s bands were making music that could reasonably described as punk rock, including The Doors, Paul Revere & the ...
Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...
Disney’s “Cruella” is both a live-action “101 Dalmatians” origin story and an ode to 1970s London. It’s set at the height of the punk rock era, when an “anything goes” mentality ruled music, fashion ...
Kennie Mason (bottom right) is the lead singer of SIICHAQ, an indie-rock band from Jacksonville. Performance in Jacksonville. Punk rock music's anti-establishment ethos and social commentary famously ...