Arts Mar 07 How Black musicians have influenced punk music By Stephanie Sy, Sarah Beckford, Mary Fecteau
Arts Mar 01 Singer David Johansen, last surviving member of the New York Dolls, dies at 75 David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls who later performed as his campy, pompadoured alter ego, Buster Poindexter, has died. By Mark Kennedy, Associated Press
Arts Dec 29 Vivienne Westwood, influential punk fashion maverick, dies at 81 Westwood’s fashion career began in the 1970s with the punk explosion, when her radical approach to urban street style took the world by storm. By Gregory Katz, Associated Press
Arts Jan 09 Watch 7:23 Kathleen Hanna, the Linda Lindas and a 30-year riot As founder and frontwoman of seminal bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, Kathleen Hanna led the way for countless artists looking to meld art and activism. NewsHour Weekend’s Christopher Booker reports on how the punk rock legend inspired generations of… By Christopher Booker
Politics Jan 26 Punk band to Wisconsin Gov.: ‘We literally hate you’ The punk rock band Dropkick Murphys is asking Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to stop playing one of their songs, saying on Twitter that "We literally hate you."… By Associated Press
Jan 23 Sleater-Kinney on how they kept their new album a secret By Victoria Fleischer Sleater-Kinney, the iconic punk-rock trio, talk about how they kept their new album, "No CIties to Love" a secret for nearly two years. Continue reading
Oct 22 Photos capture post-punk and hip hop icons before they made it big By Colleen Shalby Before Tony Alva and Jay Adams were skateboarding legends, before the Beastie Boys went mainstream and before Fugazi was a post-punk icon, photographer Glen Friedman captured their lives on film. Continue reading