Nothing will ever touch the unique energy of 1970s punk rock music. Bands like Sex Pistols, The Ramones, and New York Dolls dominated the genre and delivered some pretty memorable hits. But even those ...

Punk rock's big bang happened sometime around 1973, when the self-titled debut album from the New York Dolls was released. There were plenty of ripples before then — the Stooges, MC5, any number of ...

The hype about punk rock has always been that anyone can do it. This has resulted in misguided notions that musicianship is absent from punk. Truth be told, you only stand out in this scene if you can ...

Punk emerged in the 1970s as a reaction to the commercialization of mainstream rock music. The movement originated in the United States and the United Kingdom with bands like the Ramones and the Sex ...

The class is partly based on Matt Walker's 2016 biographical book "Gainesville Punk: A History of Bands and Music." ...

There’s nothing wrong with switching things up. In fact, I’d say that most musicians out there have radically changed their style at least once in their careers. It just comes with the territory of ...

Most people don’t picture a financial advisor with a distortion pedal and a stack of Dead Kennedys records. They see suits, spreadsheets and market speak or jargon. But before I built portfolios over ...

Brothers Shawn and Mark Stern were already veteran punk rockers when they started Punk Rock Bowling 25 years ago. But they had no idea they were in the midst of a seminal moment by launching what ...

Punk rock would never escape society’s accusations of ineptitude. To mainstream ears, the music was ugly — tuneless, arhythmic, untalented. Worst of all, the vocalists couldn’t sing. How could that ...