Listening to punk rock music is like turning the temperature of a room up. At its best, the stuff was just able to get your blood boiling. And that’s just what we wanted to explore below. We wanted to ...

Here's the best pop-punk album from very year of the 1980s. Genres don’t appear overnight. They are the result of a natural evolution, where musical styles collide to create something new and dynamic.

Punk rose up in L.A.'s Hollywood in the 1970s with groups like X, the Germs and The Go-Go's. Just a handful of years later, disaffected kids from the ‘burbs picked up guitars and an attitude and took ...

Plenty of punk bands in the 1980s had a major influence on the genre and its subsequent subgenres through the years, only to become somewhat forgotten by modern-day younger punk rock fans. Diehard ...

Beloved '80s rocker Billy Idol said he "legit dreamt" himself into being a rock star. The British rocker, 70, rose to stardom during the '80s with hits like "Dancing with Myself" and "White Wedding." ...

The Foo Fighters' latest album Your Favorite Toy proves the band's staying power once again—this time by looking back. With their upcoming release, the Foo Fighters' second since the death of drummer ...

Sure, anyone can listen to punk rock, there’s no gatekeeping here. But when punk rock hits for the girls, it really hits. Especially in the 70s, but also in the 80s when women were getting more ...

Joey Ramone helped invent the spirit of punk in the 1970s, only to watch it die with these commercial artists from the 1980s.

Earlier this summer, Paste began its big, multi-month project: picking the greatest songs of all time. The plan is to go decade by decade and choose our favorite singles and deep cuts before producing ...

We all know Flea for his furious blend of punk and funk in Red Hot Chili Peppers, but he picked up that urgent abrasiveness ...