Peter Aaron moved to Cincinnati (aka ‘the Queen City,’ ‘Cinci-tucky’) from New Jersey as a teenager and quickly found kindred punk-rock spirits. In 1988, he rev...
Born and raised in Cleveland, photographer David Arnoff was dragged by his family to Los Angeles as a teenager. Luckily, he brought a darker “Rust Belt” sensibi...
Camilla Saly turned her wild stories of a misspent youth in punk bars, and their eventual boxes of ephemeral proof, into the Punk Archives NYC, a developing onl...
Director Allan Arkush Remembers the Madness of Making the 1983 Cult Classic Rock & Roll Comedy Get Crazy (1983), a film that unfairly stands in the shadows ...
Just in time for Halloween, classic (and not so classic) horror film music rises from the grave on Something Weird Video’s new compilation, Spook Show Spectacul...
Though the Ramones exhibition at the Queens Museum in 2016 gained Marc H. Miller a wider audience, he was instrumental in framing the punk scene as an total art...
Raised in Texas, artist Gary Panter moved to L.A. in the late 1970s and made an immediate mark on the L.A. punk scene with his now iconic poster for the Screame...
From her pre-punk perch as a record company publicist and journalist in London, Vivien Goldman immersed herself in the sounds that most moved her--reggae and th...
Coming out of the pre-punk Boston rock & roll scene, Nervous Eaters were as tight and professional as any working band around, with links to Willie “Boom Bo...
Nikki imagined the Corvettes to be the Shangri-meet-The-Ramones—bubblegum punk, for lack of a better term. Her longevity, kindred spirits (from Blondie and the ...
As a preteen in Boston, Paul McAlpine was taking his camera to rock shows; by 1977, he went on tour with Iggy Pop and continued snapping him through the Blah ...
Because he brought a street photographer’s eye to the party, Godlis captured New York’s early punk scene at its most raw and humane. His shots of the CBGB scene...
In his fifth documentary, filmmaker Danny “Looking for Johnny” Garcia takes a deep dive into the life and legacy of the Dead Boys front man. Included in STIV is...
With his camera eye, Blondie’s guitarist offers a fresh angle on the city where he grew up and the punk scene he documented, in his new book. In a candid conver...
Eric Davidson is a freelance writer on most days, singer for New Bomb Turks on others, dilettante in between. He’s the author of the ‘90s garage punk history tome, We Never Learn. He lives in Queens.
