

The name "Punk" was decided upon because "it seemed to sum up.everything.obnoxious, smart but not pretentious, absurd, ironic, and things that appealed to the darker side". They settled upon a magazine, assuming that people would "think cool and hang out with " as well as "give free drinks". He is also a former senior editor at Spin Magazine, and the founder and editor of Nerve magazine (print only 1992).Īt the age of 18, disgusted with the hippie movement that seemed to be going nowhere, McNeil gathered with two high school friends, John Holmstrom and Ged Dunn, and decided to create "some sort of media thing" for a living. 1956 in Cheshire, Connecticut), is the co-founder and a writer for Punk Magazine.
