Complex sentence: Being a university town, Lincoln has had a thriving music scene since the 1950's, but starting in the late 70's, with the coming of the punk movement there has been and remains an explosion in rock bands on the Lincoln scene.
Split into simpler sentences: Being a university town, Lincoln has had a thriving music scene since the 1950's. Starting in the late 1970's, with the coming of the punk movement there has been and remains an explosion in rock bands on the Lincoln scene.