punk

In December of 1997, Florida alt-punk band New Found Glory released its debut EP titled “It’s All About the Girls.” And it sounds exactly how one would think a punk band’s first recorded release ought to sound — rough and chaotic. The…

“Anybody wants to get mellow, you can turn around and get the f-ck outta here!” To be honest, nothing Ted Nugent might have said after that would have mattered: He’d already won over my 15-year-old soul with that blistering,…

The white walls of a studio sound stage are covered in black and pink graffiti as a grown man wearing elaborate eye makeup and a pair of brown workman’s coveralls approaches a black microphone wrapped in neon-pink duct tape and sings: “This…

MONTREAL — Local punk and professional optometrist Riley “Pinkeye” Abraham tested a patient’s eyesight this morning by asking her to read the bottom line of a PUNTER FEST poster, sources report. “I could get the top of the poster, no…

REGINA – Despite claims that physical mail has been declining and gone to the wayside the past two decades, a local Canada Post-Punk rebukes the notion, and states that mail’s not dead. “Listen, sure, we had our heyday and we don’t deny…