Listening to punk rock music is like turning the temperature of a room up. At its best, the stuff was just able to get your blood boiling. And that’s just what we wanted to explore below. We wanted to ...

Punk rose up in L.A.'s Hollywood in the 1970s with groups like X, the Germs and The Go-Go's. Just a handful of years later, disaffected kids from the ‘burbs picked up guitars and an attitude and took ...

Punk rock and hard rock existed simultaneously in the 1980s. Naturally, there was a bit of crossover here and there. The following songs, each known as hard rock classics, have some punk rock elements ...

Beloved '80s rocker Billy Idol said he "legit dreamt" himself into being a rock star. The British rocker, 70, rose to stardom during the '80s with hits like "Dancing with Myself" and "White Wedding." ...

We all know Flea for his furious blend of punk and funk in Red Hot Chili Peppers, but he picked up that urgent abrasiveness ...

Joey Ramone helped invent the spirit of punk in the 1970s, only to watch it die with these commercial artists from the 1980s.

Sure, anyone can listen to punk rock, there’s no gatekeeping here. But when punk rock hits for the girls, it really hits. Especially in the 70s, but also in the 80s when women were getting more ...

After the hardcore punk boom of the late 1970s, the genre started evolving into various little offshoots. Influenced by everything from pop to funk to early industrial heavy metal, post-punk became a ...

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Do you remember the first time you heard the “punk beat”? Maybe it was via Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, or watching one of blink-182’s first singles on MTV. Before that? The pioneering early-years output ...