The first South By South Bay punk music festival took place last week in Hermosa Beach, featuring live music, a documentary, music panels, poetry readings, art show and pop-up book and record stores.

Modern Lovers' Jonathan Richman is one of the most beloved proto-punk trailblazers ever, and these four songs are worth revisiting.

PUNK Rock icon David Johansen of the New York Dolls has revealed he has been fighting stage four cancer for almost a decade. ...

During his early years, Pearl Jam songwriter Eddie Vedder was introduced to the revolutionary sounds of punk via Elvis Costello and his appearance on SNL.

The 1970s was considerably more dull than the decade it followed, but The Jam songwriter Paul Weller lists one album as kickstarting a new era of British music.

In a career that dates back to the 1970s, Ivan Nahem has written and performed music that defies convention. The vocalist and ...

The beloved New York rocker also shared in a Sweet Relief fundraising post that he broke his back in two places during a fall ...

That fact was pointed out by Kevin Kennedy, the on-stage narrator of Punk Off! The Sounds of Punk and New Wave, as he outlined the explosive origins of punk rock and identified those that really were ...

Soulful local garage-rockers Hot Laundry team up with SF favorites the Seagulls for an early show at the Make-Out Room Saturday night.

Prog rocker, post-punk modernist, 1980s pop sensation… Even at 75. the former Genesis frontman remains as compelling and confounding as ever ...

Jackie Farry, who hosted an MTV show and rubbed shoulders with some legendary rock acts, died on Jan. 12. She was 58. Variety ...

Cyndi Lauper, whose two biggest hits were written with Philadelphians, is also nominated, along with OutKast, the White ...