The Sex Pistols’s notoriously ill-conceived 1978 tour of the U.S. was one of the more surreal moments in American pop culture history. The band had spent the previous two years violently yanking on ...

It didn’t get much attention at the time but its wandering guitar figure, blurry, hard to parse vocals, splashy drums and unyielding forward motion bear a striking resemblance to the early R.E.M., ...

On the line from England, Steve Ignorant sounds a little dazed by the thought that people in Montreal, a city he has never visited, are so eager to hear him sing 30-year-old punk songs that the ...

If you were a punk between the years of 1978 and 1988 in Denver, you’re an OG. We all owe you a tremdous debt of gratitude and respect. You helped build this here scene that is so thriving today. Hell ...

There have been a lot of memorable rock concerts in Vancouver. But there’s never been anything quite like the Anti-Canada Day punk rock show in Stanley Park on July 1, 1978. Being anarchists, they ...

Mention the term “post-punk” and thoughts of politicized lyrics set to obtuse rhythms with swathes of angular guitars immediately spring to mind. Yet while that may be true to some extent, it only ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

Chicken and egg situations are usually irresolvable, but it’s impossible to avoid the feeling that before their British venture The Method Actors must have impacted on the nascent R.E.M. This is made ...