Emblazoned across the wall adjacent to the stage were trippy colors flowing back and forth between audience and performer. On the docket for the night were California-based funk bands Atta Kid and ...

Gang of Four earned a rep as rock's foremost Marxist apologists in the post-punk era—while signed to übercapitalistic corporations like EMI in the UK and Warner Bros. in the US. Whether you call that ...

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 ...

Danceable and politicised no wave songs made them the toast of downtown New York in the early 1980s. Having reformed, the band recall the hedonism of the age In 1980, Pat Place was working in the box ...

The genre-bending band is widely considered a pioneer of hardcore punk.

Rock-and-roll music was a monstrously renegade force back in the 1950s, driving parents of teenagers to their martini shakers and ministers to their pulpits to proclaim the end of morality and ...