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These 10 bands showcase the Ramones’ undying influence on music
Boston, Massachusetts, Sept. 25, 2021: The 1965 Mosrite Ventures II electric guitar played by Johnny Ramone on every Ramones album from 1977 onward and...
10 glam-rock artists from the 1970s who heralded the coming age of punk
Rock ‘n’ roll had, for the most part, lost its “roll” by 1970. It became rock music—self-serious, dour, pompous, filled with pretensions to being...
10 old-school punk bands who created the blueprint for the hardcore scene
1979: As far as the American record business was concerned, punk rock was finished. They’d spent a packet on the Sex Pistols, Ramones and...
20 books written by or about women musicians to add to your reading list
When searching a bookstore for music memoirs, it’s likely that the shelves are packed with men such as Kurt Cobain, Johnny Cash and Keith...
15 bands who are crucial to the history of noise music
When it initially blasted into the world from New York’s Lower East Side almost concurrently with punk in 1977, it was dubbed no wave....
Sex Pistols return to the ’70s in this first look at the new mini-series...
Earlier this year, we learned that director Danny Boyle is directing a new Sex Pistols mini-series called Pistol exclusively for FX.
Now, Sex Pistols fans...
10 times punk rockers stole the show on American TV in the ’70s and...
You would think television (the medium, as opposed to Television, the band) and punk rock were a match made in heaven. After all, the...
Chrissie Hynde sees protest anthems and love songs as one and the same
Akron, Ohio born and bred Christine Ellen Hynde has led the Pretenders from the top of the charts since the band’s debut single, a...
7 early Sex Pistols moments that deserve screen time in FX’s miniseries
On Jan. 11, FX announced it’d ordered a six-episode limited series about British punk spark plug the Sex Pistols. Titled Pistol, the show will...
Here’s who is playing Sid Vicious in this new Sex Pistols limited series
This week, FX confirmed that a limited series based on the Sex Pistols is officially in the works called Pistol.
The upcoming series has a...
