The November roundup of our punk column 'In Defense of the Genre' includes recent news, reviews, and features, along with a list of the best songs of the month.
It’s difficult to detail punk’s impact on popular music without regurgitating ‘learn three chords and start a band’ triteness (as important as that was) and lapsing into Winter of Discontent’s ...
While revolution hundreds of years ago manifested in war and rebellion, in the ‘70s, it manifested in sonic oblivion. The introduction of punk gave a voice to those who previously couldn’t speak up ...
But before his legal career, he hoped to spark change through his music, as a member of the punk rock band Black Chrome. The genre burst onto the international music scene in the mid-1970s.
From the oversized ad for a dentist’s office hanging in the kitchen to a taxidermied pheasant in the bathroom and A Tribe Called Quest humming in the background, little oddities punctuate the practice ...