Punk News

Five years ago, the "Hook Shots" video series started partly as an experiment, and partly as a joke.

But Katy Perry managed to make some bales of hay and some clucking hens look glamorous as she posed for a magazine shoot down on the farm.

The Boise music mediasphere gained a new netizen last week with the launch of The Exposition , a local music blog that will feature interviews, reviews, photos and videos of local music happenings, as well as a schmancy events calendar.

English rock musician Billy Idol performs Tuesday at a sold-out Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater.

While on their reunion tour , Greg Ginn and Ron Reyes' incarnation of Black Flag played three stops in Brooklyn for two shows at Warsaw and one at a secret venue which was revealed to be Grand Victory .

Crass, the band that made living in an British farm house hardcore, is the newest subject of MOCAtv 's art-meets-music series, "The Art of Punk."

It hardly matters that Joe Sib currently lives in Los Angeles, where he has long run the popular SideOneDummy Records with his partner, Bill Armstrong.

"People ask me what happened at 96X," said James Steele, who ended a 6-year run at WROX-FM on April 22. "I tell them, 'Radio happened.'

The lineup for the Epicenter festival was announced today. The fifth installment of the So-Cal rock fest features OC punk heroes like Bad Religion, Pennywise and the Offspring while still showcasing newer local punk acts like FIDLAR and Plague Vendor.

He managed to drop 70 song titles by legendary punk band The Clash into this year's series of Springwatch.

Mike Rubin, reporter of The New York Times, titled his article on Death band: "This Band Was Punk Before Punk Was Punk."

Making their London debut and in action at the Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, the teenage American girl group, the Runaways and their singer, Cherie Currie, 16, at far right, rendering "Dead End Justice" to their predominantly male audience, Oct. 1976.

The first episode of the documentary series "The Art of Punk" takes a look at the art of hardcore punk band Black Flag .

Hard rockers Black Sabbath have returned the top of the UK Album Chart for the first time in over four decades with their highly anticipated comeback album, "13."

For the last 55 years, the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium has had all types of boring conventions, cat shows and craft fairs.

DESCENDENTS of a South Cheshire benefactor will visit rural Crewe from all over the world in July, to celebrate the centenary of a Haslington landmark.

This week, Vice published a rather thorough collection of posters designed by Raymond Pettibon for the classic Californian punk band Black Flag, including some that are very disturbing.

The Pixies co-founders and remaining members Black Francis, Joey Santiago and David Lovering have confirmed Kim Deal's departure from the band.

The current incarnation of Black Flag plays Wednesday in Lexington and Thursday in Newport.

WWE didn't feel like advertising most of the pay-per-view matches until this past week, so many fans may take a rain check on Payback starring The Ryback.