Not just increasingly high pollen counts; a spirit of madness, joy and rebellion. How else could we hope to survive the next four years (or four weeks) if we didn't embrace our inner punk rock magic.

M3F, Breakaway Arizona and Country Thunder are some of best springtime festivals in the Valley.

Punk rock band Fear caused mayhem on Saturday Night Live on Halloween in 1981, bringing a mosh-pit to Studio 8H for the first time. Days after the show, rumors started to swirl that the band fronted ...

Punk rock band Fear caused mayhem on Saturday Night ... and it was John’s doing,” adds Ving. “John was the best thing to ever happen to us, I love him like a brother and always will.

The 2000s were the last decade to give us a string of classic rock songs that people still remember. It was also an eclectic time for rock ‘n’ roll, considering that Green Day and Linkin Park managed ...

B lazing out of the fires of heavy metal and adopting the pace and aggression of the burgeoning hardcore movement, thrash ...

Twenty years on from the group’s genre-splicing debut album, Mark Beaumont talks to those who were there, from The Rapture to ...

The calendar has turned to 2025 and 2024 is already fading in the rearview mirror. That’s not going to stop us from looking back at last year’s best punk releases, however, because the need ...

A look into the show Nirvana played for MTV Unplugged and how it became one of the most iconic and beloved moments of their whole career.

Mia Zapata was drenched in sweat, surrounded by congested bodies as she geared up to sing “Second Skin,” the final song of The Gits’ set inside the cramped Jabberjaw Café. It was a hot summer day on ...

In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk, pop punk, emo, hardcore, post-hardcore, ska-punk, and more, including and often especially the bands and albums and subgenres that ...