The local art scene has been obsessed with the counterculture lately as our longstanding fascination with beatniks has been joined by a nascent interest in hippies and now punks. Several punk-themed ...

Leather jackets, black eyeliner, and sweaty basement shows — the early days of punk in the ’70s and early ’80s were all about cutting loose, pushing back against the establishment, and breaking every ...

Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons, Pensacola Habitat for Humanity, the University of West Florida Historic Trust and many other respected local leaders and organizations were honored at the 2024 ...

Underlying the popularly perceived “refinement” of the United Kingdom is a rich and deep history and association with punk music. Punk music was first invented in the United States but became ...

A wall covered in black and white fliers, the kind easily photocopied, lined the walls of the entrance to the Fullerton Museum Center’s latest exhibit, “Punk OC: From the Streets of Suburbia.” ...

All punk rock ever wanted to do was return music and art to the people. Despite the apparent lack of skills and shocking results, these “musicians” were talented innovators with a desperate need to ...

Out of the various countercultures, punk, by design, has remained on the fringe by embracing anti-establishment views, which to a degree extends to television. At the same time, the history of the ...

Shakespeare once wrote that a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. But when it comes to punk rock, John Simon Ritchie just doesn’t sound as savage as Sid Vicious. San Francisco has always ...

It’s ironic that consistency, longevity, and predictability have come to be the hallmarks of “true punk,” but that’s where we are more than three decades after Johnny Rotten blew his nose all over ...

As hard as it may be to imagine, when Green Day released Dookie, their first major-label album, the Class of 2008 was in the second grade. After 10 years, it is now safe to consider Green Day an ...