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You would think television (the medium, as opposed to Television, the band) and punk rock were a match made in heaven. After all, the music and culture are sharp, edgy and visually arresting. This should have made punk flawless televisual fodder, right? Truthfully, punk and TV collisions have more often resulted in mutual incomprehension and […]

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 1979 rethink of Ray Davies’ “Stop Your Sobbing” that killed the Kinks’ 1964 Mersey Beat-ish original on contact. Sort of a spiritual big sister to Joan Jett, she led that gang […]

Sylvain Sylvain Mizrahi—born in Cairo, Egypt on Valentine’s Day, 1951—died Wednesday, losing a battle with cancer. He was 69. You knew him as Sylvain Sylvain, or Syl Sylvain, the corkscrew-haired guitarist bopping at stage right in vintage videos of punk-rock architects the New York Dolls. “As most of you know, Sylvain battled cancer for the […]

You think you know your punk history? You’ve studied protopunk, punk rock, post-punk, hardcore, grunge, pop punk, garage-punk and every other hyphenated subgenre spinoff? You know your Stooges and MC5 and New York Dolls and Flamin’ Groovies? Your Ramones and Heartbreakers and Blondie? Well, that’s cool. But do you know about the stuff that fell […]

No, those are not death-metal album covers. Neither are the lyrics. Horrorcore, a subversive blend of hardcore hip-hop and horror themes, ventured into new territories in the past decade and continues to evolve. Horrorcore 2.0 features our favorite horror movie tropes while also embracing industrial, witch house, noise, trap metal, emo rap and art pop. […]

For many, first-wave punk was the sound of liberation. Chainsaw guitars, locomotive drums and screaming singers delivered brutal street poetry about the times. It saved us from a lifetime of dull progressive rock, snooze-worthy singer-songwriters and six-string heavy metal. For certain die-hards, ’70s punk is the only punk. For them, both the music and the […]

“People try to put us down,” protest punk artist YUNGBLUD snarls over two viciously downstroked guitar chords. “Just ’cause we get around/The things they do look awfully cold/Hope I die before I get old…” “My Generation,” he spits out further before the rest of his band kick in during a live video filmed in the […]

Britpunk was born out of a movement. However, England no more invented punk rock in 1976 than McDonald’s invented the hamburger. Punk was an idea airborne worldwide across 1975. Local freaks who’d bought Stooges and New York Dolls records formed bands in their image, unaware anyone else shared their disgust with the day’s dominant culture.  […]

Never mind a biopic, the Sex Pistols don’t endorse one, after all. It turns out that the recently-announced Sex Pistols biopic in the works isn’t actually endorsed by vocalist Johnny Rotten, nor the Sex Pistols. Read More: ‘Borderlands 3’ officially announced after six years Rotten, whose real last name is Lydon, took to Twitter with a […]

Well, we never pictured the Johnny Rotten voicing a cartoon character, but here we are. Read more: ‘Bill And Ted 3’ set for February production, still working on financing As reported by Yahoo News, the Public Image Ltd and former Sex Pistols frontman, Johnny Rotten, or John Lydon, has decided to lend his iconic voice to a […]

Johnny Rotten, aka John Lydon, honored a late fan in an unconventional way while performing with Public Image Ltd. Read more:  Check out this metal cover of a Britney Spears classic The Sex Pistols former lead singer scattered a fan’s ashes onstage at a gig in Frome, England. Lydon announced that a fan named Stuart had […]

[Photo by: Sex Pistols/Facebook] “Ah, ha-ha,” chuckled Johnny Rotten, crouching in front of Paul Cook’s drum kit. “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? Goodnight.” Then he stood up, took a final look at the crowd and followed bandmate Sid Vicious into the wings of San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom. It was nearly midnight, Jan. 14, 1978. […]

[Photos by: Jorgen Angel, Discogs] Tourists are money… but so are record collectors, right? Maybe that's why this rare Sex Pistols vinyl single of “God Save The Queen” went for nearly $15,000 on Discogs—one of the site's most expensive sales of 2017. Read more: Riot Fest tried getting the Sex Pistols to reunite Discogs has […]

According to the Independent, Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon recently said he feels “a bit responsible” for the death of his former bandmate, Sid Vicious. At the Cheltenham Literature Festival over the weekend, Johnny Rotten told the audience he feels a bit responsible for the 1979 heroin overdose that led to the bassist’s death.   […]

Public Image Limited This is PiL This is not the Public Image Limited that you want. But really, how could it be? As much as we'd love to see what so many consider to be the “perfect” lineup of this ever-morphing band, John Lydon is too headstrong to bother with mending the bridges he burned […]