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Brooklyn-based punk band Surfbort emphasize friendship and acceptance over sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. Here, vocalist Dani Miller discusses their new LP.

On the eve of the publication of his memoir, the Primal Scream frontman talks to friend and author Irvine Welsh about his working-class upbringing

Here are 6 classic black punk bands you should have in your library.

X-Ray Spex - "Germfree Adolescents"

Run for your life, as Fantasia adds more European gems to its line-up Bull by Paul Andrew Williams and The Deep House by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury will shake up the viewers of the Montreal-based festival Bull by Paul Andrew Williams, having its world premiere at the festival The Fantasia International Film Festival has announced new titles, rounding up its upcoming 25th edition. While Takashi Miike’s The Great Yokai War-Guardians will close the event, European films will be given...

Greentea Peng is a South Londoner, heavily tattooed, heavily spiritual, heavily anti-establishment, and very, very heavily into basslines.

The idea of punk rock was to disrupt ‘70s rock and replace it with something subversive. Here are 10 of the finest vocalists ‘70s punk rock ever produced.

Thom Carroll/for PhillyVoice Each Friday in June there will be a screening of an independent film, DJ entertainment and food trucks at Clark Park. The movie nights are free to attend with registration. West Philly-based independent cinema and film publication cinéSPEAK is hosting Under the Stars in Clark Park, presented by PNC Arts Alive, this June. There will be in-person screenings of independent films every Friday through the end of the ...

Last modified on Thu 27 May 2021 12.55 EDT There was a time the very thought of Cruella would have been met with outrage. I know this because I would have been outraged. Of all subcultures to be hijacked by Disney, 70s London wasteland punk is surely the most heinous. Now? Well, what punk could even mean in 2021 is open to offers. While Disney releases Cruella – a pop blockbuster filtered through $200m of corporate compromise – Danny Boyle is making Pistol, a TV adaptation of the memo...

Fewer than 1 out of 100 Tyee readers enable everyone else to read us. Be a hero. Join the 1%! To be a young person in a female body at the moment is to be under constant attack. That girls would fight back and unleash Hell is the only honest and necessary reaction there is. And with that, I give you The Linda Lindas. The band’s performance of their song “Racist, Sexist Boy” went gonzo gangbusters this week. Heralded by Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello and shared feverishly over s...