Articles of category "Punk rock bands"

One of the earliest books on punk rock - "The Boy Looked at Johnny" by Tony Parsons and Julie Burchill published in 1977 - stated the punk movement to be already over with the subtitle reading: The Obituary of Rock and Roll. The title copied a lyric from the first track of the 1975 Patti Smith album "Horses". Learn more about the history and evolution of punk rock in our punk rock bands review.

He had it all. Kurt Cobain - frontman for the grunge-band Nirvana, had tapped into something few singer/songwriters are ever able to: the conscious of middle-American youth. Millions of dollars, millions of albums. And he threw it all away. But like all great talent, Cobain is worth more now that he is dead. Since the death of the Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain, the band released several albums. The first was released in 1994 and featured the band's harshly morbid performance for New York MTV Unplugged. The album contained guest appearances as well as cover versions of singles by the Leadbelly, Meat Puppets, David Bowie and The Vaselines.