The December roundup of our punk column ‘In Defense of the Genre’ includes recent news, reviews, and features, along with a ...

Since initially emerging in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, punk has been rock’s rebellious, loud and proudly defiant genre. We combed through decades worth of material to find the 30 Greatest Songs in ...

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 ...

Fans love to debate the first punk band. Kinks or Kingsmen? Or did they have too much proto in their punk and it really didn’t start until the Dolls or the Damned came along a decade later? Doesn’t ...

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 ...