"The Femmes Are Giving" punk rock show at the Kilowatt Bar on Saturday in San Francisco intends to give a ferocious kick in ...

A longtime punk rock band is entering a new era. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, a supergroup known for performing punk covers of a wide variety of songs, has changed its name to Spike and the Gimme ...

There was something in the air at Punk Rock Bowling in Las Vegas last weekend. No, it wasn’t the sound of distorted guitars, punk rockers puking or Nazis getting punched in the face. Though there was ...

The striking figure known as Soo Catwoman, an icon in the British punk rock and fashion scene, has died after lapsing into a coma. She was 70. “We are utterly devastated by her loss, it came very ...

The first chapter of the new book Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World, like its unfurling title, leaves you a bit breathless. It starts with the history ...

The Velvet Underground's influence on indie, alternative, and punk rock is scattered across decades of iconic recordings.

On paper, punk has little in common with hard rock. In its infancy, it rejected corporate bands, guitar solos, concept albums, and similar bloat that plagued the biggest artists of the 1970s. But some ...

With a tuft of hair on either side of her shaved head and long tendrils of eyeliner swiped across her lids, she helped define ...

This essay first appeared in the NPR Music newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this one, listening recommendations and more. The scene is one of the movie's best partly because actor ...