Alex Burrows

Pick it up! Pick it up! No, really, pick up any of these ska-punk stormers and you're in for a treat

After Dead Kennedys, Jello Biafra was never going to exit the music business quietly: here's our definitive guide to his very best post-DKs output

From punk and post-punk via psychedelia, avant and art-rock, these are the best Siouxsie And The Banshees albums

Bringing the noise since 1985, Public Enemy revolutionised hip-hop with their radical vision. Here's the Long Island, New York group's catalogue rated and ranked

You might know Altered Images from their cutesy '80's pop hits I Could Be Happy and Happy Birthday, but the Glasgow band have their roots in punk rock, as vocalist Clare Grogan explains

Still burning brightly more than four decades into their career, Bad Religion remain one of US punk's most respected bands. Which isn't to say that everything they've recorded is golden

Punk rock lifer Brian Baker (Bad Religion/Minor Threat/Dag Nasty/Samhain and more) chooses his platters than matter

With seven albums released across an 11-year recording career, Shane MacGowan's London-Irish folk-punks The Pogues worked and played hard. But which album is their crowning glory?

With a slick cover of the rougher original version of Hanging On The Telephone, Blondie made the song their own and an era classic

The in-demand, classic rock-loving South African Kevin Shirley is arguably the 21st century’s leading rock music producer

Garbage’s No Gods No Masters saw the band fully maturing their sound against the divisive backdrop of 2021’s culture wars

With their sharp songwriting and lyrical flair, Blondie took the pop-rock artform to a new, and hugely successful, level. These are their best albums

The best albums from producer Robert John ‘Mutt’ Lange, unparalleled audio perfectionist and man with the Midas touch, whose sonics sent the careers of AC/DC and Def Leppard soaring

What happened when a bunch of New York punks were invited onto a day time chat show

Mosh pits, slam dancing and stage diving...not what you'd usually expect from your standard Saturday Night Live, but Fear were bound to cause chaos

Here's that version of Paradise Lost doing Bronski Beat you never knew you needed – plus a goldmine of other unsuspecting pop hits given the goth treatment

It’s the ultimate concept album and best-selling prog soundtrack of all time. Prog spoke to Jeff Wayne about his epic creation inspired by a classic of 19th century literature.

From Hüsker Dü to Sugar and now solo, Bob Mould's albums form a fascinating catalogue. Here are 10 of the best