Despite a tailing-off period toward the latter part of the decade, New York City's Talking Heads were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed rock ...

In simplest terms, post-punk music is rock music of the late '70s and early '80s that put an innovative spin on the often simplistic punk rock that preceded ...

The early '80s may have been best-known for new wave, but fiercely independent punk rock and hardcore bands like these continued to make vitally significant ...

British alternative rockers the Cure, who emerged more than a decade before the term was in vogue, were one of the '80s most prolific underground bands.

Jul 18, 2007 ... When I was in high school, believe it or not, I wasn't listening to punk rock or hardcore. In fact, it would be nearly 15 years before I ...

Though much of the music was inspired by punk rock, only a fraction of it sounded much like that aggressive, revolutionary format.

For better and for worse, the punk pop explosion of the last decade or so can be traced ... One of the originators of Southern California hardcore punk, ...

One of the most recognizable icons of '80s pop culture, former punk rocker Billy Idol made quite a mark on the decade's music. Along the way, he proved that ...

Although punk, hardcore and college rock seemed to dominate most of the nation's ... Most notably, Chicago's '80s punk rock and hardcore scene produced ...

As I prepared my most recent genre profile on the largely '80s post-punk movement, ... Nonetheless, check out my Post-Punk Genre Profile and think about the ...