Darkness Illuminates: Goth Punk's Great Escapism
While goth punk's theatricality dramatizes concerns about depression and suicide amongst young people today, its safe spaces are inviting to the otherwise alienated and ostracized.
21 Aug 2019
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Sunny War and Edith Crash Head to "The Place" (premiere)
Featuring Edith Crash, "The Place" is the buoyant, wispy new single from Sunny War that's releasing ahead of her forthcoming album, Shell of a Girl.
25 Jun 2019
Vivien Goldman's 'Revenge of the She-Punks' Doesn't Gloss the Reasons We Still Have to Rage
In her history of women in punk music, Revenge of the She-Punks, Vivien Goldman hefts the scene's virtues and the vices into one heap and concludes that some of it was necessary, some of it was fun, and some of it was evil.
21 May 2019
Brits in Hot Weather #15
This time we have shadowy, soulful house with a UK garage twist in the form of Quiet Man X Joy Anonymous, stuttering funk from Skinny Pelembe, downtempo synthpop from CC Honeymoon, fiery punk 'n' roll from Eyesore & the Jinx, and glam-infused psychedelia from Benedict Benjamin.
03 May 2019
Post-Punk: The Cerebral Genre
The punk spirit would likely have died but for the theoretical questions post-punk forced bands into answering.
17 Apr 2019
Jessica Hopper's 'Night Moves': Prose Poetry for the Punk Rock Masses
Jessica Hopper's Night Moves is a dozen thorny roses for the city that keeps blowing its windy-ness beneath her darkly comic wings.
22 Feb 2019
New Wave: Turning Rebellion into Money
If 1977 was New Wave's breakout year, by 1979 it had become an industry force, all but replacing punk as a viable vehicle or term of currency.
14 Feb 2019
Three Chords and the Truth: The Ramones, the Sex Pistols and the Clash
Ask most punk fans today to name their top ten punk songs and bands and it's likely that the Ramones, Sex Pistols and the Clash will still be there.
08 Jan 2019
Bourgeois Mystics Invite You to the Craziest Party of Your Life on "Jaan Pehechan Ho" (premiere)
Prepare to pop your conscious in a psychedelic tumble dryer and kiss goodbye to any shred of sanity you may have been saving for the weekend.
20 Jul 2018
Wire's 'Pink Flag', 'Chairs Missing', and '154' Resonate Decades Later
The first three albums from groundbreaking punk/post-punk band Wire still serve as a benchmark for what punk rock could be at its best as well as where underground music would go in the decades that followed.
17 Jul 2018
Supersonic Festival 2018 Highlights the Best in Experimental Music
The prominent Birmingham music festival Supersonic returned for three days of experimental goodness, partly curated this year by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe.
17 Jul 2018
Here to Stay? The Neil Young Archives
Combining his punk ethos and tech savvy in this new online archive, Neil Young has to choose what archival releases add new understanding, new angles on the story, new points of emphasis in his own history -- and which do not.
02 Jul 2018
Say It Loud! 100 Great Protest Songs: Part 2 - Steve Reich to the Sex Pistols
PopMatters has scoured the musical spectrum for the best examples of the protest song form, including anthems of great popularity and obscurity alike. Stay tuned all week as we unveil the top 100.
19 Jun 2018
Classic Punk Band the Split Seconds Document Their Time Growing Up in DC on ​​New Album (album stream)
The Split Seconds channel their experiences into a tough, street savvy mix of the crisp, melodic punk power of the Buzzcocks, the working class spirit of Stiff Little Fingers and the activism of the Clash.
07 Jun 2018
Chrissie Hynde Doesn't Need Answers, So It's Difficult to Ask Her Questions
Why we leave Chrissie Hynde alone.
04 Jun 2018
Damn Jackals Get Dangerous With "Crooked Castle" (premiere)
Brooklyn quintet Damn Jackals give us the shivers on "Crooked Castle" from upcoming their full-length.
27 Apr 2018
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