Sean Bonniwell, lead singer and songwriter of the Music Machine, a 1960s Los Angeles band regarded as one of the most original of the garage-punk era, has died. He was 71. Bonniwell died Dec. 20 ...

Strummy singer-songwriter confessionals, twisty guitar pop, L.A. shoegaze, Spanish garage-punk, North Carolina folk-rock, Ohio disaffection — it was a great year for all manner of indie-rock.

Shake Appeal is Pitchfork deputy news editor Evan Minsker’s ongoing survey of garage rock and punk records. He returns for a year-end blowout of rock’n’roll scuzz. There’s plenty from the ...

The Beginning & End, as advertised, is both the debut and final album from this searing speed punk band led by brothers ... sloshes together garage-pop hooks that get in and get out before they ...

As you make your way to the pool deck, you’re hit with the sound of distorted guitars and in-your-face vocals as legendary L.A. punk band X ... Steven’s Underground Garage Cruise, which ...

Garage punk went commercial for the second time in its long history during the 21st century’s beginnings. It was a welcome antidote to the day’s abysmal rock and pop — a noisy, aggressive ...

The namesake of Greg Lowery’s Rip Off Records—the San Francisco garage-punk label that was unstoppable for a stretch in the 90s, releasing cuts by Teengenerate, the Reds, and more—the Rip ...

In fact, noisy rock and garage punk flourished underground during that era, thanks to the likes of the Jesus and Mary Chain, Butthole Surfers, Loop, Dwarves, and Australian caveman thudders the ...