No Use For A Name

It's the second NUFAN compilation to be released since Tony Sly's death in 2012.

”There’s a lot of hope in this record, and a lot of fight. We are all warriors. We all have miles of shit to trudge through, and we have no choice but to get through it.”

The acoustic punk song is a time-honored tradition that has seen a rise -- due to necessity -- during this year of isolation. This edition of In Defense of the Genre looks at 30 songs from throughout punk history with great acoustic versions.

Fat Wreck Chords' (in)famous compilation of 101 30-second punk songs is turning 21, and since we're all sitting at home during quarantine, we thought: what if we individually review all 101 songs?

This edition of In Defense of the Genre looks back on 23 albums from punk and pop punk's pivotal year of 1997 that turn 23 this year. Surely *somebody* likes them...

The punk supergroup features members of Strung Out, Pulley, Face to Face, No Use for a Name, Ten Foot Pole, Voodoo Glow Skulls, and more.

There's nothing quite like punk covers of pop songs, and considering the Punk Goes Pop series has pretty much evolved (or devolved?) into "pop covers of pop songs," it's a good thing that punk covers supergroup Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (Fat Mike of NOFX, Chris of Foo Fighters/No Use For a Name, Joey Cape/Dave of Lagwagon, Spike of Uke-Hunt/Swingin' Utters) are still kicking and doing it like they were in the '90s...

Off! @ NXNE 2011 (more by Natasha Ryan) The most memorable thing that happened the year I visited Toronto for NXNE was Iggy Pop & The Stooges playing their big, outdoor, free, no-ticket-or-badge-required show downtown at Yonge-Dundas Square...