Tag: post-punk
These 15 albums from 1997 irrefutably proved that punk was far from dead
1997: All media is declaring the alternative-rock explosion—for which Nirvana lit the fuse—over. This means the commercial pop-punk wave Green Day touched off was...
These 10 bands made Boston one of America’s greatest punk-rock towns
A greasy R&B riff rips from the speakers, coated in more fuzz than a peach orchard wearing a 50-year-old wool sweater. A singer with...
How punk and reggae united and went “outernational” to rule the world
This past March 5, the French punk label Guerilla Asso quietly slipped a genius album into the marketplace: Rocket To Kingston, credited to Bobby...
Eyedress releases two-song single and music video featuring Dent May—watch
Eyedress has released a new two-song single that showcases both ends of Eyedress’ sonic capabilities. The single includes “Something About You,” featuring Los Angeles-based...
Pretty Sick wreak hospital havoc in new single “Bet My Blood”–watch
Indie troupe Pretty Sick do more than live up to their name with the new single “Bet My Blood.”
The New York act have been...
10 alternative artists who were inspired by David Bowie’s legacy
Nothing’s been right since David Bowie died, Jan. 10, 2016. The rise of Trumpism? COVID-19? The Big Bang Theory going off the air? Would...
10 debut records from 2001 that still crush 20 years later
It's truly mind-blowing to believe that 2001 was really 20 years ago.
The beginning of the 2000s was a strange time. We had the beginning...
15 bands and solo artists who are rewriting the emo rulebook
Ever since the inception of emotional hardcore in the ’80s, each decade had defining bands who updated the sound and meaning of emo to...
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....
15 essential post-punk bands who represent the evolution of the genre
Post-punk had to happen. Punk rock opened all this space for people to make exactly the kind of art or culture that the disenfranchised...
