The release of Spiral Scratch, Buzzcocks’ debut EP, on 29 January 1977 was a watershed event in British punk rock and independent music. Recorded and mixed in about five hours at Manchester’s Indigo ...

As the guitarist and main songwriter for the Damned, he helped spark an explosion on the British music scene in the 1970s. By Alex Williams Brian James, who helped spark the punk-rock revolution in ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

British punk band the Sex Pistols plan to mark their 50-year anniversary with their first U.S. tour dates in more than 20 years, including a stop in Brooklyn. Founding members Steve Jones, Paul Cook ...

Punk revolutionized the music scene, but there were quite a few forebears who had to branch out into new sounds and set the ...

In the middle of the Iraqi conflict, it was revealed that many popular mainstream songs were used as a common form of torture, including "Enter Sandman" by Metallica. This was because they used ...