MEDIA

THE VIBRATORS | PURE MANIA  Part of the idea behind punk rock was that anyone could play it, bu...

UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS | VOL 1 Somewhere out there, in the multiverse of infinite possi...

CADILLAC TRAMPS | DON'T GO From Orange County, California, USA, hardcore punk unit Cadillac Tra...

THE FACTION | COLLECTION 1982-1985 The Faction is an American hardcore band from San Jose, Cali...

THE DAMNED | MUSIC FOR PLEASURE In 1980 / 1981, The Damned went to Rockfield for a series of se...

BUZZCOCKS | ANOTHER MUSIC IN A DIFFERENT KITCHEN With their crisp melodies, Pete Shelley's biti...

GENERATION X Although not as well as known as some of their peers (the Clash, the Sex Pistols, ...

THE ADVERTS With their raw, enthusiastic immaturity, the Adverts were a bright, though short-li...

ADOLESCENTS One of Southern California's best-loved hardcore bands, the Adolescents helped esta...

JOY DIVISION Formed in the wake of the punk explosion in England, Joy Division became the first...

THE DEAD MILKMEN During their heyday in the late '80s, the Dead Milkmen led a crop of college-r...

U.S. BOMBS The story of the US Bombs is really the story of style and substance working together...

BEASTIE BOYS It was a remarkable turn of events for a group whose members demonstrated no signi...

THE LURKERS The Lurkers were part of the first wave of British punk bands to emerge in the mid-'...

THEH AQUABATS Beginning as a zany eight-piece ska unit in the mid-'90s, Los Angeles County's th...

ZERO BOYS Admittedly, Indianapolis has never really been known for producing much in way of ban...

STIFF LITTLE FINGERS During the first wave of U.K. punk rock, plenty of bands sang about a worl...

THE SPITS Playing old-school punk rock with an up-to-date level of snottiness and mordant humor...

THE FALLING IDOLS The band biography/history as told by Greg 'Mudd' Lowther: Me and Trey have b...

DEATH The East Detroit- based proto-punk outfit Death formed in 1973 around the talents of sibl...

BAD BRAINS By melding punk with reggae, Bad Brains became one of the definitive American hardco...

FUGAZI If history is kind to Fugazi, their records won't be overshadowed by their reputation an...

THE RUTS With their unique blend of raucous punk rock laced with reggae and dub, the Ruts were o...

THE CORTINAS The Cortinas were, initially at least, Bristol's best-known punk-era band; they we...

DEVO One of new wave's most innovative and (for a time) successful bands, Devo was also perhaps...

999 One of the longest-lived groups of the punk era, 999 formed in London in December 1976. Led...

McRAD Like Bad Brains, McRad started as an '80s hardcore band that specialized in speed punk an...

THE ADICTS The Adicts were an influential and idiosyncratic British punk outfit formed in the la...