Sometimes it’s best to keep things simple and direct, prune the excess and get down to basics. Many an out-there band has found success by taking a step back toward...
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It may seem strange to see so many playlists for an artist who has rarely been front and center in the musical landscape. But every Nick Cave album has at...
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Neo-psychedelic rocker Robyn Hitchcock got his start in the Soft Boys, who came to relative prominence (meaning, not much at all) during the explosion of post-punk and new wave bands...
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Among the mass of post-punk bands that proliferated in England in the aftermath of punk, few had as memorable a sound as Gang of Four. They keyed in on punk’s...
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Even from the start, Wire didn’t seem like your standard-issue punk band. There were no catchy melodies with simple chorus-verse-chorus structures, like you might find in a typical Ramones song,...
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This Heat crawled out from the wreckage of punk’s crash and burn, during a time in which a multitude of great UK post-punk bands were taking punk’s noise and energy...
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Suicide, which emerged from the underground New York scene before and alongside the growing crowd of the punk and new wave scene, may have been the first act to bill...
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The Sex Pistols burned out in a flash, releasing only one proper album, 1977’s Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols. Better to burn out than to fade away....
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Television was one of the more intriguing bands to emerge from the New York punk and new wave scene of the mid- to late-‘70s. I don’t know how most folks...
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Dissatisfied with the new conformity of England’s once-nonconformist punk scene, Howard Devoto left Buzzcocks, the band he founded with Pete Shelley, after their first EP. He was determined to move…
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