While punk rock was born in generations prior, it was the 1980s where it came of age. The era solidified the sounds and the ...

Their 1980 debut album was named Los Angeles ... “To me 'Sheena' was the first surf/punk rock/teenage rebellion song,” Joey later recalled. “I combined Sheena, Queen of the Jungle with ...

Punk rock is usually understood as a 1970s genre. This ignores the fact that several 1960s bands were making music that could reasonably described as punk rock, including The Doors, Paul Revere ...

Before they became the Beastie Boys, the group of ambitious and rebellious New Yorkers were known as Young Aborigines—a hardcore punk project shaped by Adam Yauch’s teenage angst and fascination with ...

Interestingly, Jim Morrison of The Doors had a similar view of both. 1 of the masterminds behind the 1st punk rock song liked The Monkees a lot Punk rock didn’t start with The Clash or the Sex ...

Anyone with a passing knowledge of rock is aware of its origins back in the late 1940s and early 1950s when blues, rhythm and ...

Even colossally successful rock bands of the decade, like The Kinks or The Who, had a part to play in the history of punk as a result of their early use of guitar distortion and fast-paced songs of ...

To honor that history, we here at Them assembled a massive Queer 1980s Playlist (on both Spotify and Apple Music) encompassing everyone from top 40 pop legends to college radio darlings of the era.