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All bets were off in the Texas punk of the early 1980s. In Austin, the Dicks played drunk punk blues, and were led by Gary Floyd, a fiery queer man and vitriolic Communist. Meanwhile, San Antonio‘s own Fearless Iranians From Hell provoked audiences who were still stung by the 1980 …

In the new book Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World, authors Nate Jackson and Daniel Kohn get in the pit with influential bands like Social Distortion, the Offspring, Sublime, the Adolescents, and No Doubt to trace the history of Southern California punk …

Polish art-rock band Trupa Trupa have announced their latest release: a five-song EP called Mourners, due out Feb. 21, 2025 on Glitterbeat Records. Along with this news, they’ve released a single, “Sister Ray,” whose slinky, disco-leaning groove is unlike anything you’d expect from this dark and stormy band. Trupa Trupa …

J uly 19, 2003: It’s well after midnight in San Francisco, and the Exploding Hearts — Adam Cox, Terry Six, Matt Fitzgerald, and Jeremy Gage —are ready to play for a packed house at a bar called Thee Parkside. The show is a “last-minute thing,” Six, the band’s guitarist, remembers. …

If you mentioned that your car was breaking down, August Golden would quietly get his tool kit, log onto YouTube, and figure out how to fix it. If you really liked Taylor Swift — an artist that was not his favorite — and told him you wanted to start a …

Officials have identified the victim who was killed during a shooting at a punk show held at a Minneapolis home on Friday, Aug. 11. Nicholas Trevor Golden, who also went by August Golden, was killed, and at least six were injured when, per reports, two suspected gunmen opened fire into …

Kathleen Hanna will look back on her turbulent formative years and success as the singer for Bikini Kill and Le Tigre in a new memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, out May 14. The book will chronicle the tumult that surrounded Hanna’s childhood, as well as her …

If you were on a very specific part of the Internet last year, it’s likely that a post-punk cover of Karol G’s hit “Bichota” ended up on your radar. It came from a Chilean band called Friolento, who turned the 2020 hit darker and more exciting by injecting it with …

Before there was punk, there were Los Saicos. Started by four guys in Lima, Peru, Los Saicos thrashed their way through local venues and cinema matinees in the 1960s, eventually flickering into obscurity almost as quickly as they’d arrived. But they left behind a roster of hits, including “Demolición,” a …