Punk News

A graduate of punk's school of hard knocks, Steve Diggle is taking a badly rolled ankle in his stride.

The Clash, shortly before scouting for extra virgin olive oil and sunblushed tomatoes on Portobello Road.

The Fenton-based band The Swellers. From left, drummer Jonathan Diener, guitarist Ryan Collins, singer/guitarist Nick Diener and bassist Anto Boros.

Multi-platinum rock band Green Day are in the studio this week recording a new version of their hit single "21 Guns" with the cast of American Idiot - the critically-acclaimed stage version of the band's 2004 album that has been playing at Berkeley Rep since early September.

Matt Whipkey and Kris Lager With the Matt Whipkey Three now down to two members and the Kris Lager Band down to just a pair, the two duos are taking to a Benson stage to duel it out.

SWEDISH punk performer Monica and The Explosion is the latest act to feature in our online video section - The Base Sessions.

When the youthful DIY/punk ideal collides with the middle-aged family idyll, you get acoustic folk-punk -- at least, that's the conclusion reached by the frontmen of '90s bands like Hot Water Music and Avail.

You can tell a lot about a musical act by how it approaches one of pop music's worst inventions, the greatest-hits album.

Henry McGlade Up-and-coming Irish Punk band Beanz on Toast is comprised of three hard-working souls from Dunmore, Co Galway.

John Lydon has announced that the recently-reunited Public Image Ltd will "definitely" record new material following their December tour .

Deal's Gone Bad is a ska survivor. Details: With the Toasters, Mustard Plug, Voodoo Glow Skulls, and Deal's Gone Bad.

Zane Lowe will play four albums in their entirety before the end of the year as part of the Masterpieces programme on Radio 1. Between 7pm and 9pm on consecutive evenings from Monday, November 30, the DJ will play Metallica's self-titled album, Original Pirate Material by The Streets, London Calling by The Clash and Discovery by Daft Punk.

As far as wish fulfillment goes, the Jarman bros are second to nobody. Form a band, get a record deal, work with a range of producers from the eclectic to the heroic to the headline making on the way to a commercially sustainable career with your siblings, and then for your fourth album expand the roster to include the guy who played guitar for the ...

They provided one of rock and roll's greatest soap operas over the past decade and now The Libertines have been acknowledged as creators of one of the greatest albums of the decade.

Carbon/Silicon is going back to its free, digital roots. The act, which features onetime Clash and Big Audio Dynamite singer/guitarist Mick Jones and Generation X bassist Tony James, dropped another free digital album onto the world Saturday , slapped its The Carbon Bubble album onto its website .

Designs for a BMX track in Wakefield have been drawn up. Local group Wakefield High Flyers, who have been campaigning for around a year for somewhere for riders to go, have worked with local councillors and council officers to draw up draft designs for the project at Horbury Lagoons.

Okay, so this one's been out for a few weeks, but it bears sharing. Broward County's best pop-punk exports are still releasing new stuff to support their most recent album, Not Without a Fight , which dropped this past spring on Epitaph.

" Los Lobos Goes Disney " sounds like a really, really bad PG-rated movie. And yet in actuality, it's a really, really entertaining cover album from one of Los Angeles' most enduring rock bands.

Carbon/Silicon the band formed by Mick Jones of the Clash and Tony James of Generation X are ready to release their long awaited new album 'The Carbon Bubble'. The album will be released as a FREE download via their website www.carbonsiliconinc.com on Saturday 14 November 2009 at 12 Midday UK time.

Russell Brand and Katy Perry have recorded a duet. The British comedian and his US pop star girlfriend were reportedly "messing around" in a Los Angeles studio where they recorded a version of Edward Lear's 1871 poem The Owl and the Pussycat .