Punk is dead: a sentiment which has followed the subculture since its very beginnings. Despite what the purists claim, the philosophy of punk has thrived, progressing far beyond the safety pins and ...
Punk’s not dead. But it has been around long enough to belong in a museum. Which is why there’s big excitement about the opening this month in Las Vegas of the world’s first museum dedicated to the ...
The present and future of Black punk culture. Bad Brains in London, 1987. (Photo by David Corio / Redferns) Probably no musical or cultural art form exists in a more contradictory space than punk.
In the 1970s, nothing was going right. Governments were repressive, war raged on, women weren’t treated as equals and calls for change were met with a shrug. No matter how much people protested, ...
Pop culture goes through changes decade after decade, but true pop revolutions orbit on a less frequent apogee. Perhaps the last great pop-cultural zenith came during the punk/new wave scene of the ...
Leather jackets, black eyeliner, and sweaty basement shows — the early days of punk in the ’70s and early ’80s were all about cutting loose, pushing back against the establishment, and breaking every ...
Adorning the walls of Georgetown University’s Spagnuolo Gallery is a variety of cultural memorabilia commemorating one of the most influential cultural and political movements in Washington, D.C.’s ...
The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Punk subculture, which expands past the clothes to encompass various ideologies and ...
Watching the raucous crowd slam-dancing in their Mohawks in the mosh pit at the Electric Banana in Pittsburgh’s Oakland section in the early 1990s, one might not have envisioned punk-rockers taking ...
The influential French electronic-music duo, who composed the score for film Tron: Legacy, said goodbye in an eight-minute YouTube video. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and ...