If Kate Moss’s arrival in the 1990s signaled the heroine-chic era for women, Slimane passed the baton onto menswear in the 2000s. It was a look that carried over into the early 2010s and has since been dubbed indie sleaze. A crop of garage rock and post-punk bands (The Strokes, ...
The earliest punk rock bands that formed in the early 1970s were Ramon's, Black Flag. Then in the late 1970s, more new punk rock bands were formed such as The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, Iggy Pop. Their songs were formed by some simple notes and their methods of singing wer...
2000s Pop Punk: Sum 41 Ah, the early 2000s. One of the weirdest times for fashion. Bands such as Sum 41, Fall Out Boy and Blink-182 wore T-shirts with baggy pants, spiked hair, and studded belts and wrist cuffs. It was almost a combination of the 70s punk and grunge staples. 20...
(Master Records, 1990) The Scumdog overlords from Antarctica made their first big impact with the release of ‘Scumdogs of the Universe.’ Gwar refined their songwriting skills, employing a playful balance between skate punk and feel-good rhythms, setting the musical background for firebrand fron...
never put our fingers in our ears when certain hits of the early ’80s, particularly those coming out of the U.K.—songs that, at the time, were described as new wave, post-punk, New Romantic, synth-pop, dance-pop and any number of other real or silly appellations—float into our ...
This was only the start of The Wonder Years’ long and storied career as emo forefathers, butSuburbiawas a snapshot in time for the boys from Philadelphia. It’s a chance to retain their cheeky pop punk (there is a song named “My Life As A Pigeon” after all) while laying the found...
Punk’s be-here-now ethos, its acid anti-sentimentality — especially when the sentiment was nostalgia — made a deep impression on me. (Still, I bet there’s no shortage of people my age nostalgic for their punk years.) So I learned to think twice before waxing nostalgic in unfamiliar ...
In 2012,Patty Waltersposted an online advertisement for musicians who might be keen to start a post-punk band alongside him. Among those who answered the call was Patrick Foley, who soon became the band's drummer. After eight years in the band, Foley announced onTwitterthat he would be lea...
performing on Journey's 50th-anniversary tour. "The combined hits of both bands represent a couple of decades of excellence that have become a soundtrack for people's lives," Journey's Jonathan Cain said when the trek was announced. The two bands will start on Feb. 4 in Allentown, Pa.,...
The Go-Gos originally started as a punk band in the 1970s but shifted to pop with the release of their album "Beauty and the Beat" in 1981. "Our Lips are Sealed" was the breakout hit from the album, peaking at #20 on the Billboard charts. 'We Didn't Start the Fire' by Billy ...