Despite a tiny budget and an initial failure to chart, one album helped define the punk genre forevermore.

Rock fans can likely belt out this 1976 track's leading chant, which has not only become a punk rock anthem, but one often used at sporting events. In the mid '70s, the American punk rock band the ...

In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk, pop punk, emo, hardcore, post-hardcore, ska-punk, and more, including and often especially the bands and albums and subgenres that ...

In 1977, Elvis Costello released a song that sounded gentler than much of the punk movement surrounding it, but carried just ...

This legendary album defined an entire generation of the genre.

A fast, emotional punk song from 1978 is getting fresh attention after earning a spot on Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs ...

The rebellious anthem helped redefine punk music while introducing audiences to a fearless teenage frontwoman.

Here are the best cover songs from 11 big pop-punk bands. When it comes to pop-punk bands playing cover songs, things typically go one of two ways. They either stay too true to the original as they ...

The Damned are the greatest punk rock band of all-time, so logic would also have it, that they are also the greatest rock and roll band of all time. I write this because punk rock is the only genre of ...