Nothing will ever touch the unique energy of 1970s punk rock music. Bands like Sex Pistols, The Ramones, and New York Dolls dominated the genre and delivered some pretty memorable hits. But even those ...

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 ...

It can be argued that punk rock started in the '60s, when a bunch of kids holed up in a garage, bashed out two chords on their guitars and shouted into a taped-together microphone. But for our ...

SAN ANTONIO — Forty-five years later, the maniacal lead singer’s punk mess of orange hair is now a Kewpie doll comb-over; the ashes of the smirking, hot mess of a bassist, long scattered. But Johnny ...

At the climax of the 1978 stoner film Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke, the then 32-year-old Mexican-American actor Cheech Marin fills Los Angeles’ crowded Roxy Theatre with cannabis smoke before ...

The hype about punk rock has always been that anyone can do it. This has resulted in misguided notions that musicianship is absent from punk. Truth be told, you only stand out in this scene if you can ...

In October, the same music weekly’s Bob Edmands pondered their second single, “Nasty Nasty.” “The words and riff hurtle past at a preposterous speed, so fast that all concerned seem to have lost ...