Steve Albini, a punk and alt-rock icon whose knife-edged, metallic guitar style influenced players the world over, has died at the age of 61, Pitchfork reports. Staff at Albini's recording studio, ...

The front door of the rundown rental house in southeast Minneapolis has no doorknob. The roof leaks, there are bats in the attic and asbestos in the basement, according to the six young musicians who ...

Gang of Four‘s signature style — a mix of punk, funk, disco, dub and radical politics — is so iconic at this point, it’s come to define a large portion of what gets referred to as “post-punk.” When ...

Fact: Guitar solos are awesome. Plain and simple. They’re just as much fun to see live as they are to listen to, as they fully display the guitarist’s raw passion for the instrument. While solos are a ...

October 25 is Punk for a Day Day. Didn't you know that?! It's ok, neither did we. But we are huge fans of bands like Bad Brains, The Clash, The Jam, and The Specials. Yes, music snobs, we're aware of ...

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 ...