Punk didn't suddenly appear in 1977. Bands like The Stooges, MC5 and New York Dolls had already laid important groundwork. But during the second half of the '70s, a handful of records turned those ideas into a movement. If you want to understand how punk became punk, these three albums are a good place to start.

For years, people have been saying the same thing: rock is dead. And for years, rock has been quietly proving them wrong. It’s not exploding the way it did in the ’90s. It’s not dominating radio the way it did in the 2000s. But if you look a little closer, you’ll see it, in streaming numbers, sold-out tours, viral moments, and a new wave of artists pushing rock back into the spotlight.

Finding Hope in the Heavy. Get to know Lives Lost and how they went from a studio apartment to the big stage!

Johnny Ramone didn't need an overflowing wardrobe to become a style icon. His formula was almost aggressively simple. Black leather jacket, T-shirt, ripped jeans, sneakers and that unmistakable bowl haircut. Alongside the rest of the Ramones, Johnny helped create a visual identity that became inseparable from punk rock itself. The brilliance was in the consistency. While other rock stars embraced extravagance, the Ramones looked like four guys who had walked in off the street

Few breakups in music history have been blamed on one person as often as The Beatles splitting up has been blamed on Yoko Ono.

Meet Lift The Curse, the Austin, Texas rock duo of Ryan Hegefeld and Jon Yadon Jr. Formed in 2022, Lift The Curse combines heavy riffs, huge alt-rock choruses, melodic harmonies and guitar solos into a sound that comfortably moves between hard rock and metal.

Few musicians have influenced the look of rock ’n’ roll quite like Keith Richards. This week, we break down the formula behind one of rock ’n’ roll's greatest style icons.

Turnstile just dropped NEVER ENOUGH: VERSIONS, a full reimagining of their Grammy-winning 2025 album NEVER ENOUGH. And instead of going the predictable deluxe-edition route, they invited one of the strangest and most stacked collections of collaborators we've seen this year.

Giant noses. Polka dots. Bare feet. A wild double-neck guitar/bass. If you’ve been anywhere near the guitar side of the internet lately, you’ve probably seen Angine de Poitrine.

Trivium and In Flames have officially announced a massive UK and European run for spring 2027, and somehow the support lineup makes this thing even crazier: Paleface Swiss and VOLA are coming along for every date.

The breakdown has become one of the defining ingredients of metalcore. Slow the tempo, strip everything back, let the guitars hit like bricks, and suddenly the pit has doubled in size. But some breakdowns are bigger than others. These five didn't just hit hard, they helped define what generations of heavy music would sound and feel like.

Around this time in 1991, Nirvana were in the studio working on what would become Nevermind, an album that didn’t just succeed, it completely flipped the rock world upside down.

Before Blink-182 became one of the defining bands of modern pop-punk, they were just three kids from Southern California with skate parks, cheap gear, and a shared obsession with fast, loud, funny music. Their story isn’t a straight line, it’s full of breakups, reinventions, and some of the most iconic songs of the late ’90s and 2000s.

There are bands that start with a plan, a meeting, maybe even a name before the first note is played. Wasted Society wasn’t one of them.

Before the stadiums, before the headlines, Guns N’ Roses were just another hungry band fighting for attention on the Sunset Strip in mid-’80s Los Angeles.

Music doesn’t survive by playing it safe, and Bring Me the Horizon has built an entire career on proving that. Every time you think you’ve figured them out, they flip the script, change the sound, and somehow come back bigger. This isn’t luck. It’s strategy.

Every band has a starting point, a basement, a few amps, and a reason to play. For Feral Union, that story begins back in 2016.

There was a time when bands made money the “traditional” way: sell records, sell out shows, repeat. Simple. Predictable. Sustainable. That time is gone. Today, streaming dominates the music industry, but for most artists, it’s not paying the bills. In fact, it’s doing the opposite.

Francesca’s story with the guitar started almost before she could walk. Her love for music skyrocketed when a childhood encounter with rock icons turned into a lifelong dream.

Pop-punk never really dies, it just waits for the right moment to come crashing back in. And right now, that moment belongs to New Found Glory.