The Official, Original & F-ing Irreverent Punk Magazine located in the Lower East Side, NYC. 1st iss
On January 14th 2016 the exhibit celebrating the 40th Anniversary anniversary of the historic 1st issue of Punk Magazine, featuring Lou Reed as drawn by co-founder John Holmstrom, will open at the renown Howl Happening Gallery on East 1st in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Punk Magazine is a publication created by cartoonist John Holmstrom, publisher Ged Dunn, and "resident punk" Legs McNeil in
1975. Its use of the term "punk rock", coined by writers for Creem magazine a few years earlier, further popularized the term. It was a vehicle for examining the underground music scene in New York, and primarily for punk rock as found in clubs like CBGB, Zeppz, and Max’s Kansas City. Punk magazine was home to (many of whom were being published for the first time) writers Mary Harron, Steve Taylor, Lester Bangs, Pam Brown, artists Buz Vaultz, Anya Phillips, and Screaming Mad George, and photographers Bob Gruen, Barak Berkowitz, Roberta Bayley and David Godlis. After Dunn left in early 1977 and McNeil quit shortly afterwards, Bruce Carleton (art director, 1977–1979), Ken Weiner (contributor, 1977–79), and Elin Wilder, one of few African Americans involved in the early CBGB/punk rock scene, were added to the staff.
