The Jam's loud crashing roars of socio-political fury rang an alarm bell with me that didn’t stop ringing until I’d got somewhere I told myself I needed to be. And that wasn’t doing Double Physics in an ancient science lab...
Whilst many believe the punk rock spirit of artistic rebellion and personal nihilism started with the birth of rock and roll - the truth may be that they're literally centuries off the mantle.
Traditionally, the concept album has been limited to Dungeons & Dragon playing metal bands. Recently however, a multitude of top musicians have produced some classic concept records. Here's the best...
Duke Vin & The Birth Of Ska is an ace new documentary that explains how one man’s fierce passion for Jamaican music helped bring ska to the masses. We talked to the director about Duke, ska and the West London scene...
The Wigan garage-punk duo have spent years burning the paint off venue walls with their guttural odes to love, life and drinking. Here's a selection of the best they've come across (and a couple of the worst)...
Peerless when fusing punk and reggae, a debut album of unparalleled greatness, top-notch gigs galore and more 'charisma' than you can wave a Tommy gun at. Give it up for The Ruts.
"Mick Jones once told me that without the Sex Pistols there would be nothing" The Goldblade vocalist and writer John Robb gives us fifty of the songs that shaped his life...
Shoegazing, Madchester, Merseybeat, all genres rooted to a geographical location. The internet has changed all of this, but also gives us more access to bands from scenes split by land and sea...
This place is a shithole, Sid Vicious thinks as he opens the door of his New York hotel room and stares at a transvestite breezing past. It's October 1978, and even as the worlds most notorious punk rocker, he still feels out if place...