The 10 Best Women-Led Punk Bands
Though women co-pioneered punk rock, women’s bands have often slipped beneath the radar of many critics, pollsters, and everyday fans. Here are the ten best.
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Fiddlehead Deliver Hearty Post-Hardcore with ‘Between the Richness’
Fiddlehead’s Between the Richness takes from post-hardcore, punk, and emo and skips the boyish flourishes. Although it could benefit from being longer, it’s precise and vigorous.
Punk Rockers the T-Tops Are ‘Staring at a Static Screen’
Listeners are treated to 12 high-octane songs straddling the ill-defined spaces between punk, post-hardcore, and noise-rock on T-Tops’ Staring at a Static Screen.
From Hardcore to Harajuku: The Origins of Scene Subculture
TikToker Madeline Pendleton and early metal and hardcore scenester Ethan Stewart recall the scene subculture of the ’00s.
The Dead Space’s Indie Punk ‘Chlorine Sleep’ Is Half of a Great LP
The Dead Space had promise. Many in Austin saw it from the get-go on their first LP, Faker. However, the sophomore slump hits these guys hard on Chlorine Sleep.
Home Is Where and the Transformational Fury of ‘I Became Birds’
Florida emo band Home Is Where craft a punk-rock gem about the struggle with gender identity on the cathartic I Became Birds.
20 Years On, Sum 41’s ‘All Killer No Filler’ Is a Classic Pop-Punk Party
Despite an initially lukewarm critical reception, Sum 41’s All Killer No Filler enjoys a place in the pop-punk pantheon as it hits its 20th birthday.
L7’s Major Label Catalog Is Salvaged From Out-Of-Print Limbo With 3-CD Box
L7’s new box set Wargasm: ‘The Slash Years 1992-1997’ reminds us how essential the band’s classic material was—and still is.
Silence Has a Sound: The Unempty Quiet in ‘Sound of Metal’
If punk is for those who reject mainstream culture, then in the music film Sound of Metal, nothing is more punk than radical deaf acceptance.
After Nearly 20 Years, Chicago’s Nonagon Releases Debut Full-length
Nonagon perform wonders on their debut LP, They Birds, by letting songs breathe more than in their furied post-hardcore past.
Martyrs and Murderers and Post-Punk Dialogues Between Dublin and Detroit
Dublin's the Murder Capital and Detroit's Protomartyr both delve into murky existential lyrical terrain as riotous riffs reverberate and drums pound militantly, infusing the atmosphere with ominous sonic shadows.