Most people know Juliette Lewis for her career as an actress and all around celebrity, but did you know she can sing? Her newest album Terra Incognita features twelve rockin’ tracks that blend classic rock and punk that sounds like a combination of The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, PJ Harvey, and Joan Jett. Check out a musical sampler below. Download the album here.

Today, we give you a compilation of some of the songs that best capture the constant rhythm and magnetic pull of New York City.  The gritty beauty of the city has provided ample inspiration to artists for generations.  As a subject, NYC transcends the genres, and has proven itself almost impossible to capture.  Here are a few songs that successfully embody the attitude, spectacle, and sound of New York City.

Pop Punk’s Not Dead. Or is it? Here’s a lil playlist to help you decide. Up the Pop Punks indeed.

Responsible for the resurgence of the dance-punk genre in New York in the early 2000s, DFA Records has produced a myriad of stellar hits from Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem, and other stalwarts from the scene. Check out this selection from their dynamic catalog, as well as a few choice original remixes.

Nevermind the bullocks, here’ some of the best punk ever. Listen here to some of the greatest early UK punk bands that came to define the movement and forever change the course of modern music. Enjoy!

Ah yes, my pretties! If you are an astute student of punk rock, you will surely be hip to the anarcho-peace-punk movement in the UK in the late 70’s onward. These politically-charged punkers had social and political aims far beyond the likes of the Sex Pistols or other more well-known punk acts, and, for them, punk was a part of their dialectically-negative challenge to the status quo. Check out the rough and tough sounds of bands such as Zounds, Flux of Pink Indians, and Poison Girls, and harken back to the day when Punk still had its teeth.

Before the Ramones, the Clash and the Sex Pistols defined what we know as punk rock, there were the pioneering groups that preceded them—the ones who blew the 60s cultural revolution wide open. These bands fell in love with the sound of distortion, turned up the amps to 11, and delivered it all with a middle finger salute leading to the attitude and modern sound of punk rock, hardcore, emo and metal.

When Hilly Kristal opened his now legendary downtown New York City club, he had no idea CBGBs (originally a country and blues club) would turn into a home for the biggest punk rock pioneers.  While the former haven for Patti Smith and the Ramones recently re-opened as a John Varvatos boutique, we haven’t forgotten the sounds that rocked the Bowery for almost 20 years and still reverberate today.

Ska originated in Jamaica with artists like Prince Buster and the Skatalites, influencing the chug-chug sound that eventually became reggae music. But Ska didn’t stop there, continuing to inspire the early UK punk/new wave scene–listen to the Specials, the Clash, and Mr. Costello–as well as an American generation of punk/pop bands from Rancid to No Doubt.