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/PRNewswire/ -- A Leonard Cohen meets Johnny Cash-style gunfighter ballad, "Your Arms Will Be the Heavens" is a song about the salvation of true love. It was...

It’s one of the great abiding legends in popular music – a young bluesman called Robert Johnson making a deal with the devil at a crossroads.

Born and raised in Cleveland, photographer David Arnoff was dragged by his family to Los Angeles as a teenager. Luckily, he brought a darker “Rust Belt” sensibility to sunny SoCal and began taking shots of the local rock scene before, during and after the punk wave swept through. He may be best known for his shots of the Cramps, but his resume contains remarkable work with a who’s who of everyone cool: Nick Cave, Lydia Lunch, Gun Club, Dream Sydicate, The Damned, The Dead Boys, The Ramones...

Before shoegaze and acid house, a dysfunctional wave of British guitar bands were pursuing a psych horizon all of their own

Dave Thompson reviews Grebo! by Rich Deakin

From Keith Morris to Amy Taylor, these 10 punk vocalists upheald the traditions of punk through the 2010s—a new era for the genre.

[Photos via YouTube] When the ball dropped in New York City’s Times Square at the stroke of midnight Dec. 31, 2009, punk rock had been around 35 years. (Or 33, depending on if you date the subculture from when the Ramones began playing gigs or from the mythic Punk Year Zero of 1977.) It was well into its third decade as the 21st century entered its second. There was now plenty of history from which new bands could draw inspiration—not just punk history. It no longer had to come from the Ra...