When Adam ‘Atom’ Willard was 15 years old, he started working at a San Diego skate shop to avoid attending church with his family on Sundays. Since then, he’s only held one other job title: punk rock ...

The most important member of any rock ‘n’ roll band is the drummer. Seriously, you can have Jimi Hendrix on lead guitar in your band. But if Mitch Mitchell isn’t in the back, holding it all together ...

It is with these terms as a backdrop that we dive into the history and meaning of the band name, Daft Punk. Formed in 1993 in France, the electronic music duo, which has now retired, was comprised of ...

This excerpt is from Chapter 3 of “Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World,” out May 20 from Da Capo Press. The book explores the trajectory of punk and ska ...

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 ...

Punk and hip-hop: not genres typically associated with each other — except in the case of New Jersey-born duo Ho99o9, pronounced “Horror.” Founded in 2012, the punk-rap group isn’t new to the ...

The first time that guitarist Frank Agnew went to a punk show he was about 13, and even though he was underage he was able to get into the Whisky a Go Go to see the Bags, Black Randy and the ...

Minneapolis: The state of Minnesota’s most densely populated city. It sits back to back with the state capital, St. Paul, forming what’s known as the Twin Cities. It also gets really freakin’ cold up ...