Like most do-it-yourself endeavors, the first Punk Palouse Fest — sprouting up on Moscow's main drag Friday, May 24 and Saturday, May 25 — started with a spark of curiosity. Last summer, Moscow ...

What began as an emphatic middle finger to the closed-mindedness of an ’80s world has blossomed into a full-blown movement. Queercore has quickly transcended its DIY punk roots, now spilling into a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photography by Bailey Payne. Graphic by Chris Panicker. There are few places in Washington, D.C. where you can hear a band cover ...

As the frontwoman of All the Pretty Horses, Venus de Mars is a paramount figure in the DIY punk scene as one of its first openly transgender artists. Quintessential to De Mars’s narrative is her ...

April Hartman suggests folk punk, the oft-maligned music genre which combines acoustic instruments with punk’s ethos, is misunderstood. Her band, Apes of the State, is one of the genre’s foremost acts ...

The patriarchy weaves a plethora of tall tales to keep its ego in check and the biggest of those is that women can’t stand each other. Even when we were pitted against each other by repugnant, morose ...

There's a hefty dose of irony behind I Hate Records, the name of a store in San Francisco's Lower Haight. But its owners are sincere in their mission to give DIY punk its own space. "Punk, as a ...

In the Laurel Canyon era, musicians lived, practiced and collaborated in the same neighborhood. Now 50 years later, that’s still happening in LA, Kristina Benson tells Greater LA. She’s publisher of ...