Punk albums from the 1970s marked the very beginning of a brand new genre, a response to the commercialization of rock music as a whole. And while punk would eventually fall victim to that very ...

Punk rock didn’t hit its peak until the mid-’70s, but the groundwork was laid much earlier. The first murmurings of punk happened in the ’60s. Many rockers were leaving behind all sense of innocence, ...

The definition of punk rock is way up there on the list of “most hotly debated” topics in modern music. I won’t try to give you a definitive answer. I’ll just tell you what I think it is. You can take ...

The first music I ever bought with my own money was a trio of singles that I loved when I was eleven years old. It was 1973. I went down to the local record store and picked “Brandy” by Looking Glass ...