This jam from The Beatles has been hailed as one of the first heavy metal tunes ever made, but it also has proto-punk elements that can’t be ignored. McCartney himself admitted that the song was ...

In this May, 1988 High Times story, Jeff Jarema and Jim Wynand discuss early punk music from the Netherlands, and how the British Invasion hit Amsterdam long before it arrived in the States. Someone ...

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 & the ...

What’s collected is from 1965 to 1969. All these combos operated in California, generally working in and around the LA area. All were produced by music biz maverick Gary S Paxton, whose company was ...

“Let me tell you ‘bout Wayne and his deals of cocaine. A little more every day,” the Clash sang in 1978. “Holding for a friend till the band do well. Then the DEA locked him away.” Sign up for our ...

Punk rock didn’t hit its peak until the mid-’70s, but the groundwork was laid much earlier. The first murmurings of punk happened in the ’60s. Many rockers were leaving behind all sense of innocence, ...

Some of punk and metal's most influential outfits arose from the Bay Area, with many of them serving as an exciting and ...

Two U.K. televisual musical moments from the turn of the century, both involving stripped-down young rock ‘n’ roll bands: “We are the Hives! We’re from Sweden,” he announced, as the arrangement ...

New York’s fabled punk scene is alive and kicking at Ki Smith Gallery, where “50 years of PUNK” is honoring the rag that started it all through January 11—the very day that the first issue of PUNK ...

The Buddhas, Limey & The Yanks (whose frontman Steve Cook was English), the splendidly named Ken & The Forth Dimension (sic) and the others on Lost Innocence obviously aspired to success. Their ...