Hardcore punk caught on in other countries during the early 1980s. In theUnited Kingdom, new punk acts adopted the bruising metal music of Motörhead to create a heavier, more aggressive sound. Among the first of these bands was Discharge, a group fromStoke-on-Trent. Discharge’s distincti...
Also ranks #1 on The 37 Best Pop-Punk Bands Of The 2000s 2 Green Day 5,124 votes Green Day's widespread influence can hardly be overstated, as they brought punk rock to the mainstream with their 1994 album Dookie. Seamlessly blending catchy hooks with powerful, anthemic choruses and politi...
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You can argue that punk rock started in the late '60s and early '70s with bands like MC5 and the Stooges. You can even go back earlier to the Velvet Underground and the garage-rock scene of the mid-'60s. But punk rock as we know it today started right here with the Ramones' first...
really crazy, weird, uncertain times. When I got into punk it was always about protests and calling people out and I think it continues to do that to this day. That’s why it’s important to support all these new, younger bands and I hope that’s what Punk Rock Bowling is able to...
The first hardcore bands sprang out of suburban Los Angeles. Black Flag, founded in 1977 as Panic, was arguably hardcore’s first standard-bearer. The band’s single “Nervous Breakdown” (1978), with its breakneck pace and lyrics about modern disillusionment, set forth many hardcore conventions...
NOFX will play its final Massachusetts shows on Saturday, August 31 and Sunday, September 1 at Campanelli headlining thePunk in Drublic Festival, with Quincy’s Dropkick Murphys joining them on Sunday. The festival will feature other prominent bands of the punk scene as well. On Saturday, Circle...
Their mutual admiration for rock bands led to the founding of their own independent project, Darlin'. Bangalter expressed that "It was still maybe more a teenage thing at that time. It's like, you know, everybody wants to be in a band."They drew inspiration from the rock and acid ...
In the ongoing explosion of rock biopics, punk is a particularly hot zone. The near no-future will see movies and TV series dramatizing the unruly lives of Sex Pistol Steve Jones, Viv Albertine of the Slits, Throbbing Gristle’s Cosey Fanni Tutti, the Clash, and Malcolm McLaren. But mus...
McKagan played in several punk rock bands in Seattle during the early '80s, such as 10 Minute Warning andThe Living, before moving to Los Angeles a few years later. Heavily inspired byThe New York Dolls, he later wrote Guns'Use Your Illusion IIsong "So Fine" as a tribute to the late...