Maximum Rocknroll, the country’s longest-running punk fanzine, announced Sunday that it will discontinue its print edition this spring. The announcement offered scant financial details, and the ...
It Books. 372 pp., $30. While the thought of a hardcover, slick-papered, coffee-table book anthologizing the decidedly low-rent, ragtag Punk magazine might seem the antithesis of punk, even a ...
The legendary Punk Magazine will be celebrated with a 40th anniversary exhibit at Howl! Arts in NYC (6 E. 1st St.) from January 14 to 30. The description reads: Join John Holmstrom and some of his ...
‘Slash’ magazine cover featuring Blondie’s Debbie Harry (all images courtesy Hat & Beard Press) Most people don’t associate Los Angeles with a thriving punk scene. But Slash magazine, in a short run ...
In 1975, John Holmstrom and Eddie “Legs” McNeil stumbled into CBGB — the legendary and now-defunct punk club on the Bowery in Manhattan — to see the Ramones play eighteen minutes of blaring rock ‘n’ ...
Most fans of punk music have read Please Kill Me, Legs McNeil's excellent oral history of the genre. Back in the '70s, McNeil made a name for himself as the co-founder of Punk magazine, a publication ...
Though it only existed from 1976-1980, Punk Magazine captured the zeitgeist of New York's punk music scene as it emerged from a few ramshackle clubs (most notably CBGB's and Max's Kansas City) to the ...
He is among those credited with giving punk rock its name. But for John Holmstrom, it's only rock 'n' roll. "To me, 'punk rock' was just another name for real rock 'n' roll that goes back to the '50s, ...