It was never a phase—and on May 9, 2025, Manila proved it. For one night at the Mall of Asia Arena, the emo kids—who were ...

Pittsburgh’s punk princess of drag, Lydia B. Kollins, has stomped her way back into the Drag Race workroom, and this time, she’s here to win. That’s right. Team Butthole rises again. After making ...

Brothers Shawn and Mark Stern were already veteran punk rockers when they started Punk Rock Bowling 25 years ago. But they had no idea they were in the midst of a seminal moment by launching what ...

The first chapter of the new book Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World, like its unfurling title, leaves you a bit breathless. It starts with the ...

Punk rock has always been about expressing aggression and attitude as much as it is about the music. But those lines aren't so easily defined. On the surface, bands that arrived during the genre ...

Social Distortion is proof that sometimes, you can go home again. As Mike Ness, frontman for the Orange County punk rock legends revealed, it wasn't always that way, when it came to Fullerton ...

Before I ever led global IT teams or founded a technology firm, I was mixing sound for punk rock legends like The Ramones and Murphy’s Law at iconic NYC venues like CBGBs, Limelight and The Ritz.

A new book by Nate Jackson and Daniel Kohn chronicles some of the untold stories of Orange County’s pivotal role in punk rock history. “Tearing Down The Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought ...

Punk Rock Bowling turning 25 still strikes festival founder Shawn Stern as a pleasant surprise. “It started off as a bowling tournament, which was really just an excuse for us to go to Vegas and ...

Beyond this staggering number of performances, Porchfest also showcased an impressive variety of genres, from early 2000s raw punk with overblown distorted ... Porchfest experience with the local ...