The Linda Lindas didn’t choose punk. Punk chose them. “When we started writing music, punk was just a given because we wanted to write whatever we were feeling,” says 14-year-old Lucia. “What we were feeling kind of came out in that way.” “It wasn’t like we chose punk as a …
Read More »Music at Home: 15 Great Punk Songs by Black Artists
Punk music has always been about individuality. Although skinheads and fascists have periodically tried to co-opt and homogenize the genre over its 50-year history, they have always failed, because the true spirit of punk begins with an original thought, a unique life story, and the poetic philosophies that truth is …
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