Sewing quilts and playing Scrabble: for pensioner Ruth Miller from Britain, that wasn’t enough. After retiring from her teaching job, she wanted to make punk music again. So she founded her own band. It was a huge success.

Henry Rollins

Pete Shelley, the Mancunian co-founder and singer of Buzzcocks, embedded a vulnerability and honesty into early punk's genetic code, forever changing the genre.

Pete Shelley of groundbreaking UK punk band Buzzcocks has died, reports the BBC. The sad news was shared today via his brother, Gary McNeish, who wrote on Facebook, ”This is the hardest thing I have ever had to do, is tell you my brother Pete Shelley had a heart attack this morning and passed away.”

Off their first EP "Music from the Mausoleum No. 1"

From the EP "Friday the 13th" (2016)

Ed Templeton has long been fascinated by the punk staple, which he’s photographed from Detroit to Stockholm. Along the way, he’s seen the defiant style evolve. By Scott Indrisek.

Wire

The Ramones

Richard Cabut and Andrew Gallix’s Punk is Dead is a nostalgic, intelligent homage to the brief, hazy era of “pure” London punk. By Chris Kraus.

When music captures the spirit of freedom it can cross any border. It crossed the Berlin Wall and eventually helped to bring it down. By Chris Bowlby.

It may be that familiarity breeds contempt, and if that’s so, we should all be very glad of the wealth of excellent documentaries correcting the monolithic commercial story of punk, which goes something like this:

Connie Kuhns’ major profile of punk, politics and feminism in 1970s Canada: the Moral Lepers, the Dishrags and other revolutionary bands.

The Ramones

40 years later: The feuds, failures and breakdowns of the band that launched punk rock.

From the album The Clash - 1977

For a movement that famously proclaimed there was no future, punk rock has had a remarkably durable half-life. The world is awash in punk. By Eugenia Williamson.

Genre - Punk Rock