Today, we are thrilled to bring you the premiere of the new EP by New York-based singer and guitarist Carlos theChords! The ...

California punks The Last Gang have announced a new album, Noise Noise Noise, due October 8 via Fat Wreck Chords (pre-order). The album was co-produced by their label boss (and NOFX vocalist) Fat Mike ...

Big bands have made it out of Tempe, such as the Gin Blossoms and Jimmy Eat World. However, Tempe is also home to the "baby" bands, the ones that have yet to emerge but hold promise in their talent, ...

For decades, reggae and other styles of Jamaican music have infiltrated popular music worldwide. It’s in the DNA of everything from hip hop to punk to electronic music to reggaeton to Afrobeats and ...

Read about the greatest punk rock artists, influential bands, classic albums, and subgenres that shaped punk music history ...

There is a moment in punk history that doesn’t get talked about enough. It was 1979. At the legendary New York City music club CBGB, four young black men from Washington DC had just finished playing ...

The genre-bending band is widely considered a pioneer of hardcore punk.

Big Mountain earned national notice for their early 1994 cover of Peter Frampton’s “Baby, I Love Your Way,” which reached the U.S. Top 40, though they first hit the charts around a year earlier with ...

Washington’s 1980s hardcore punk (or “harDCore”) bands were known for vigor, intensity and rapid stylistic evolution. But the impatience audible in their songs also manifested in another way: Few of ...

Mento is the name given to Jamaican folk music that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. Similar to Calypso, which originated in ...