Punk News

Named for the Cheap Trick song, NYC transplants Big Eyes are fronted by guitarist/powerhouse Kate Eldridge, who wears her influences on her sleeve .

"There's so much to do no one can see everything...Punk rock in general needs kids to be inspired, start bands and keep punk rock alive," exclaims Shawn Stern.

Princeton-based Saves the Day will play the Skate and Surf Festival at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson on Sunday.

The daily band lineup for the second annual Kanrocksas Music & Arts Festival has been announced.

An official announcement is still a few days away, but Bay Days organizers say they are looking at a musical lineup filled with a variety of accomplished local and regional players, from Norfolk's Mike Aiken Band to Smithfield's Bria Kelly .

This Saturday night the Minor Mishap Marching Band takes over the Spider House Ballroom .

When Kathleen Asheton wrote Henry Rollins in 2009 asking if he'd emcee a tribute concert for her recently departed brother, the former Black Flag vocalist didn't flinch.

I started developing a serious interest in music when I was about 14 years old. I listened to a lot of punk and rock, and was seriously obsessed with Dave Grohl.

Former BUCKS FIZZ star MIKE NOLAN wants Britain to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest, insisting: "We will never win it again." ONE DIRECTION star ZAYN MALIK was subjected to an embarrassing prank by his girlfriend PERRIE EDWARDS, who gave the singer a manicure while he slept.

Thanks to the Met Ball and the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Punk: Chaos to Couture" exhibition, punk is officially back on the fashion radar.

Thu 5/16, 9 PM, Fri-Sun 5/17-5/19, 8 PM, Empty Bottle, Thu $10, Fri-Sun $25, four-day pass $70. Local label HoZac retired its Blackout festival with a memorable blowout in 2006, then resuscitated it in 2011; for its third year back, the notoriously rowdy, beer-soaked punk-and-garage party runs for four nights at the Empty Bottle, with a lovingly ... (more)

LOS ANGELES , May 16, 2013 - Today is International Lagwagon Day to punkers around the world.

Twenty white kittens. One hundred white doves. Lilies with stems trimmed to precisely six inches.

Website: http://www.facebook.com/feedbigb Music: http://vevo.ly/17lwV4S For Immediate Release: Big B Premieres Video For "Here Comes The Lightning" Online *** Catch Big B On Tour With The Dirty Heads & The Expendables This Summer Las Vegas hooligan Big B has premiered his new video for "Here Comes The Lightning" online with VEVO at ... (more)

Local punk blowout Riot Fest has steadily grown since it began as a two-day affair at the Congress Theater back in 2005, but it kicked things up a notch last year when it moved into Humboldt Park and transformed into a multistage outdoor carnival, Ferris wheel included .

Yekaterina Samutsevich is a member of arguably the most famous musical ensemble ever to come out of Russia, but when not wearing a fluorescent balaclava and shouting, she's easy to miss in a crowd.

Save Rock and Roll by Brooks Johnson Considering the context of this album-the resurrection of a pop-punk-turned-pop-star band three years into a hiatus-it's not half bad.

Industrial metal group, Mindless Self Indulgence, are not for everybody but they have amassed a large underground following and their fans know exactly what to expect from them and love them for it.

It is as grungy as a musical can get. "American Idiot" satisfies both musical theater afficionados and hardcore Green Day fans.

THE Voice favourite Joel Madden had a run-in with ill-famed shutterbug Jamie Fawcett yesterday after having lunch with wife Nicole Richie and their two children, who flew in from LA this week.