The Plasmatics, fronted by the unmatchable Wendy O. Williams, may have been the most misunderstood rock ‘n’ roll band ever. Conceived as all of the following: p...
British photographer Steve Rapport returned to London in 1980 and played “catch up” on the exploding rock ‘n’ roll scene in the wake of the punk explosion. From...
With their irreverent mix of 'teengenerate' sarcasm, three-chord garage rock, surf music and party-hearty stage antics, The Dictators presaged New York City's p...
Michael Grecco picked the right time to be in Boston. As an undergrad at BU studying photojournalism, he began exploring the clubs of The Hub with his camera an...
Alicia Armendariz (aka Alice Bag) is a Los Angeles punk legend, not just for her groundbreaking first band the Bags (featured in Penelope Spheeris’s Decline of ...
As the leader of the Only Ones, a band that drew fans like Johnny Thunders, Richard Lloyd, and Keith Richards, Peter Perrett was a musical force on the London s...
The Damned have traveled far beyond their UK punk roots over the decades, fueled by humor and refreshingly free of affectations. Bassist Paul Gray (ex of pub ro...
Peter Laughner is one of those ‘what could have been’ rock & roll stories, and nobody knew that potential better than Adele Bertei, who shared a house with ...
Poison Ivy Rorschach, lead guitarist, songwriter, arranger, producer and sometime vocalist of one of the greatest bands in the universe, the Cramps, which she c...
A new doorstopper-sized (900+ pages) biography of Malcolm McLaren by Paul Gorman got musician Gary Lucas thinking about one part of the former Sex Pistol/Bow Wo...
Influenced by the punk scene centered at Mabuhay Gardens, and the fun, bohemian spirit of a city that was, back then, an affordable place to live, Judy Gittelso...
The former guitarist/vocalist of the classic English punk band has, since he left the Stranglers, had a long and wide-ranging solo career as both a musician and...
Slash, the indispensable fanzine that charted the Los Angeles punk scene (1977-80), gave birth to a record label that pushed the punk boundaries well into the 1...
The punk-era holdouts The Mekons, originally from the UK but now scattered worldwide, were set to reunite to record their 23rd album. Then COVID-19 hit, and the...
