21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Punk is having a midlife crisis – just like its aging fans.

Well, these things can happen when a once-revolutionary genre of music has been around for over 40 years — the same length of time that the big bands of the jazz era had been existence, when punk arrived in the mid-’70s. As Pete Townshend wrote (partially in response to the arrival of punk), “The Music Must Change” — not “The Music Must be Permanently Freeze Dried In Time.”