Punk Rock

Musician Interview: Big D and The Kids Table’s Dave McWane Talks Ska, Spooks, and “Scatterbrain”

October 20, 2026
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Ahead of “A Nightmare Before Halloween” at the Paradise Rock Club, the frontman talks collaborative songwriting, animated adventures, and keeping new music in the works while on the road.

Music Review: Sugar Returns to Boston — Still Sweet, Fierce, and Potent

October 20, 2026
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Reunited after 30 years, Bob Mould, David Barbe, and Malcolm Travis deliver a triumphant Roadrunner set that balances melodic hooks with cathartic fury.

Album Review: The “Horror” of the Mekons

April 4, 2025
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The apocalyptic overtones of the Mekons’ music come across as alarmingly real as ever.

Visual Art Preview: “Days of Punk” Showcases Hallowed Era in Boston’s Music History

May 16, 2023
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This is the first time Michael Grecco, who was a photojournalist for the Associated Press from 1978-83 and then a staff photographer for the Boston Herald — while regularly shooting shows at night for WBCN and Boston Rock — will exhibit this collection in the U.S. northeast.

Rock Review: The Damned Deliver Damned Good “Evil Spirits”

May 16, 2018
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Even after decades, The Damned is still grandly flying its freak flag.

Book Review: Punk Rock and Poetry — The Record Corrected

September 3, 2017
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There was an entire “New York School” that the punks were inspired by and a part of, whether they always wanted to be or not.

Fuse Book Review: Pussy Riot — The Price of Singing a Loud Song in the Savior’s Castle

February 9, 2014
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Most everyone has heard the faux-scandalous name. What has not been heard enough is that Pussy Riot are the purest and most potent expression of the punk-rock ethos ever.

Book Review: “Left of the Dial” — Punk As Music and Philosophy

June 29, 2013
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In these interviews, David Ensminger goes beyond questions of biography and discography to explore some of these artists’ more unlikely influences and their philosophies on not just punk, but life.

Fuse News Theater Review: Lord of the Flies, A-levels version

May 11, 2013
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The Zeitgeist Stage Company provocatively lives up to its name by taking audiences into the netherworld of horrific violence via a powerful production of Simon Stephens’ drama “Punk Rock.”

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