When heading out to see a punk concert, it’s always good to pack a few essential items: Earplugs (because tinnitus is no joke), a Band-Aid (because you’re likely to get caught in the lip by a rogue ...

In the early 1980s, at the peak of the punk rock scene in Fullerton, the interest and demand for punk in Orange County reached a boiling point during one particular TSOL show at Fullerton College. The ...

In downtown Gainesville, where energetic nightclubs and lavish restaurants meet, lies a passion for punk rock not only as a genre, but as a way of life. Respite Events hosted a concert Wednesday at ...

The Jr. Chemists were a Phoenix-based punk band formed in the early 1980s. The band was known for its quirky, childlike aesthetic and experimental sound. The Jr. Chemists were part of the vibrant Hate ...

While Los Angeles bands like The Germs, The Go-Go’s, X, and Bad Religion drew the spotlight to Southern California’s punk rock scene, their iconic larger-than-life presence may have inadvertently cast ...

Houston punk band AK-47 is one of the many groups that made up the vibrant and irreverent punk music scene in Texas, which is chronicled in Pat Blashill’s book, “Someday All the Adults Will Die!” When ...

If this writer’s own coverage is any proof whatsoever, Phoenix’s punk scene is big and vital. It started in full in the early to ’80s, where bands set about differentiating our desert home from L.A.