What’s With All The Noise? Here Comes Corrosive Moses by Stewart Pedley – Coromind Issue 31, 2025

Listen: punk rock agitates, but it always has something to say. Ever since it cursed and spat its way into the beige and regimented mindset of the mid-70s, it’s been loud in calling out the bullshit and challenging the rules. Bands like Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, and The Clash in the UK, and Ramones, Television, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids in the US, were, respectively, fearless in their rejection of establishment, corporate mainstream, and authority. They became an indignant reaction to dire social conditions. Not everyone had a slice of the pie, so backs were turned and flags were raised. Things were done their way.