This jam from The Beatles has been hailed as one of the first heavy metal tunes ever made, but it also has proto-punk elements that can’t be ignored. McCartney himself admitted that the song was ...

There was a point in the late 1990s and early 2000s when the term “pop-punk” was used as a pejorative against Green Day, Blink-182, and others. “Basket Case” is too catchy. Green Day can’t possibly be ...

Punk rock is usually understood as a 1970s genre. This ignores the fact that several 1960s bands were making music that could reasonably described as punk rock, including The Doors, Paul Revere & the ...

The Buddhas, Limey & The Yanks (whose frontman Steve Cook was English), the splendidly named Ken & The Forth Dimension (sic) and the others on Lost Innocence obviously aspired to success. Their ...

The 1960s didn't just change rock music—they practically invented the modern version of it. In a single decade, rock evolved from simple three-chord tunes into something bigger, louder, stranger, and ...

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 ...

Exploring the relationship between Mick Jagger and punk, including The Rolling Stones classic which he described as being ...