Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre or series or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated ...

[Editor's note: Deathmatch pairs two artists who have something in common, and determines who is better. It's a concept we sort-of ripped off from MTV, except that instead of claymation it's the ...

Audie de Lone never meant to start a revolution, and, for the longest time, didn’t know he had. But when his Marin County rock group Eggs Over Easy left London in 1971, they had unknowingly sparked ...

When Johnny Rotten was squawking, “There’s no future for you,” on the Sex Pistols’ 1977 hit single “God Save the Queen,” he seemed to be implying that there was no past either. That same year Joe ...

There are reviews you wish would just write themselves. Peek behind the curtain, if you will, and see my struggle. I really wanted to write an über-positive review of the Black Flag show at Pub Rock ...

This is charted by Surrender To The Rhythm: The London Pub Rock Scene Of The Seventies and 1978: The Year The UK Turned Day-Glo, a pair of three-CD sets. Although the specifics of 1977, the year punk ...