On the evening of July 5, 1976, the Ramones headlined their first concert on British soil. Gathered that night at Dingwalls, in Camden Town, were members of the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Damned,

They were mainstays at CBGB in the '70s, but many consider them pop, not punk.

An iconic punk band released the album in 1980.

Some of the greatest and most legendary albums by punk rock bands that we know and love today flopped quite hard when they were first released. Let’s look at a couple of examples of both punk albums and what many consider to be proto-punk (or early punk ...

Here's the best pop-punk album from very year of the 1980s. Genres don’t appear overnight. They are the result of a natural evolution, where musical styles collide to create something new and dynamic. While most fans think of pop-punk as being a product ...

The low-budget debut initially struggled commercially before becoming punk rock’s defining masterpiece.

Many would consider the New York City club, CBGB, to be the hot spot in the 1970s where American punk rockers and new wave artists came to fame. While the club has sadly closed down as of 2006, that place lives on in the hearts of the punks who got to ...

Ska has been making its way back into the public consciousness more and more each year, it continues to attract new generations, and there continue to be so many great ska and ska-punk records coming out. We included three ska albums in our list of the 50 ...