Some of punk and metal's most influential outfits arose from the Bay Area, with many of them serving as an exciting and ...

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 ...

Recorded in one raw take at a JMC studio, the three-track release captures everything that makes Knight Rider worth paying attention to.

In the long corridor at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in Los Angeles, Corrosion Of Conformity drummer Reed Mullin is quietly losing his shit, unsure what to say. At the other end of the corridor stands ...

A few years ago, in Sweden, a self-proclaimed "heavy metal addict" was awarded state disability benefits after having his obsession with the band Slayer classified as a handicap. It's one of the ...

After landing in Gainesville three years ago, 24-year-old Christian “Cloud” Casey quickly discovered two things: the collaborative community of musicians in Gainesville and the opportunity to grow the ...

Aftershock festival to feature headliners Blink-182, Korn, Deftones and Bring Me The Horizon. The aftershock festival is set for Oct. 2-5 in Sacramento. Moshing is back. Rock, punk and metal from the ...

The 1980s didn’t just sound different; it looked different, felt bigger, and pushed rock in multiple directions at once. Arena anthems got shinier. Guitar solos got faster. Alternative scenes got ...

Out of the various countercultures, punk, by design, has remained on the fringe by embracing anti-establishment views, which to a degree extends to television. At the same time, the history of the ...

Many view punk as a male-dominated genre, but many women have made names for themselves in the field. Trailblazers like Patti Smith, Chrissie Hynde and Siouxsie Sioux broke down the gates of punk, ...

Middle school was an odd time for me. As I’m sure most angsty preteens do, I struggled to define the boundaries between who I was and who I was not. And most often, that struggle manifested in my ...