Joan Jett, Godmother of Punk and voice behind hits like Bad Reputation and I Love Rock ’n Roll, turns 67 today, still rocking hard.

It’s been 20 years since Shira Yevin, the lead singer of punk band Shiragirl drove a pink RV into the Vans Warped Tour grounds, the now-defunct punk rock festival notorious for being male-dominated.

The 1990s were a definitive era for rock and roll, with subgenres like grunge, nu metal, and Britpop taking over the scene and stomping out the previous decade’s sex-fueled glam metal landscape. Music ...

Why does the act of stepping away from a creative vocation still have the power to shock? By Ligaya Mishan HERE IS THE myth of how the punk singer and poet Patti Smith vanished for 16 years: In 1979, ...

Whitney Houston Performs In Paris Bercy on May 18th, 1988. She is one of the best female vocalists of the 1980s. The 1980s were a great time for music, with so many iconic female singers and vocalists ...

Crys Matthews let out a deep laugh when asked whether being a woman has hindered her success in the music industry. “I am thrice marginalized. I’m a woman, I’m Black, I am also a lesbian,” says the ...

This article is featured in the 2025 Commencement & Reunions special issue. Fraternities are a hub for campus music. On a given Saturday night, there might be five or six different performances from a ...