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Welsh rock band The Alarm followed in the footsteps of their friends U2, rising out of the fertile late 70s UK post punk ...
Need some inspiration for your band's name? Why not crack open the Kindle, head to the library or go browsing in your local ...
Yoko Ono has long been abused as a homewrecker – and worse. A new biography celebrates her joyful positivity in adverse ...
When you grow up in a small town, punk rock ... and joy of the first half gives way to vandalism and arson as the quartet tries to push back against the forces of life and death in any way they ...
Nonetheless, when the Beatles broke up in 1970, a misogynistic narrative swiftly blamed her for playing a substantial role in the band’s ... Ono as “the first female punk rocker”, Sheff ...
In 1945, when Yoko Ono was 12, her home city of Tokyo was firebombed. With her mother and siblings, she fled to the safety of a farming village in Nagano Prefecture. Food was scarce. During this time, ...
In the late ’70s, the British punk rock scene gave rise to a new brand of the genre simply called Oi!. These working-class bands weren’t interested in the outrageous fashion or lofty ...
Punk didn’t really ... which he then turned into a song. He first recorded it in 1970, then re-released it as a B-side in 1971, accompanied by a three-piece band. Both recorded versions feature ...
Les Binks, the former drummer for Judas Priest, has died. He was 73. The band addressed his death in an Instagram post on ...
A punk band just released a video for their newest ... Stereogum reports that “At Peace” will be the group’s first album in nearly a decade. A song bearing the same name as the album was ...
Binks’s time behind the drum kit for the English metal band was brief, playing from 1977 to 1979 on albums such as “Stained ...