Al Barile, co-founding guitarist of the influential Boston hardcore band SSD and a lifelong figurehead of the straight-edge ...

Dave Allen, the original bassist of the British post-punk band Gang of Four, has died at the age of 69. Allen passed away at his home Saturday morning surrounded by family, his former bandmates Jon ...

A groundbreaking heavy rock band that has shaped the sound of punk and metal for over 40 years, the Melvins bring their current tour with UK grindcore greats Napalm Death to San Francisco and San Jose ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Fred H., the longtime bassist of the Limburg-based punk band Heideroosjes, has been arrested in connection with a child pornography case, according to De Limburger. The 50-year-old musician from ...

Larry Tamblyn, the co-founder and singer of the Standells who also appeared in several notorious B movies like 'Riot on ...

Ricky Dineen, who at the time played guitar with Cork punk band Nun Attax was at the gig. “Funny but in the gig we were totally unaware of the trouble outside,” recalls Dineen. “It sounded ...

On the other hand, punk rock was forged on a manifesto of ‘here are three chords, now form a band’, resulting in an explosion of grassroots and outsider artists with limited-to-no musical skill ...

The likes of The Sonics, the MC5 and especially The Stooges laid down a blueprint with garage rock that the punks followed so closely that the only inaccurate thing about calling those bands ...