FAST-PACED: "That energetic, busy style and pronounced attack of punk bass playing is something that originally attracted me to bass," says local musician Alex Deutsch. "It's one of the reasons I play ...

Punk rock's big bang happened sometime around 1973, when the self-titled debut album from the New York Dolls was released. There were plenty of ripples before then — the Stooges, MC5, any number of ...

The hype about punk rock has always been that anyone can do it. This has resulted in misguided notions that musicianship is absent from punk. Truth be told, you only stand out in this scene if you can ...