Looking for something to do while you're stuck inside due to COVID-19? Pick up that remote or put your laptop on your lap, grab a blanket and a snack and tune i...
A school mate of John Lydon’s, Jah Wobble (John Wardle) was still a teenager when he joined Public Image, Ltd., and he learned bass on the fly. Not a huge fan o...
Kathy Valentine was born with a rock ‘n’ roll heart, so it was no surprise to find herself playing bass in the Go-Go’s, whose first album Beauty and the Beat (1...
Patti Smith has been one of Billy Hough’s “Ride-or-Die” favorites ever since he heard her debut album, Horses. In his inimitable style, Billy muses on and marve...
Signed to Mercury the same time as the New York Dolls, Ohio-based Blue Ash was part of a pre-punk wave pushing against the pretentions and bloat of 1970s rock &...
The influence of professional wrestling on the music industry has seldom been examined. Consider, for starters, the rock bands whose members prance menacingly a...
Taquila Mockingbird developed a following in LA with her various bands (punk and jazz) beginning in 1977, and she became a fixture on the LA punk scene when, fr...
The Village Voice, during punk’s heyday, called The Feelies “the best underground band in New York.” But, outside of some tracks for Ork Records and a single (“...
If there was a Mount Rushmore for reggae, Lee “Scratch” Perry's would be one of faces carved on it. The producer-songwriter-musician-singer, now 83, rose throug...
Henry Rosenthal might just be West Coast punk’s Renaissance Man. One-time drummer for the legendary S.F. punk band Crime, he has had an amazingly varied creativ...
While Hendrix, Morrison and Joplin were setting the musical tone for 1960s counterculture, Denver-based Lothar & The Hand People were following the lead of ...
Stephen Friedland began his music career in the early 1960s as an in-house songwriter for the BT Puppy record label in New York, penning hits for Chubby Checker...
Brian Jones, the Rolling Stones’ troubled but gifted guitarist and blues maven, made a few attempts to find life outside the celebrated rock & roll band. On...
Carol Kaye started as a jazz solo guitarist, working the club scene of 1950s LA, when she was asked to work on some studio tracks for Sam Cooke. Though she love...
