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 ...

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 ...

The Tony Hawk skateboarding video games helped form many people’s music tastes with fantastic soundtracks, introducing old-school punk, hip-hop and metal to those who may have otherwise never ...

If the horn melodies and up-stroked guitar chords of Goldfinger's "Superman" conjure memories of doing kickflips or sitting in front of your TV, playing video games in the late '90s or early 2000s, ...

Between new (good!) Useless ID and Jughead’s Revenge songs, and promising new bands like Oh The Humanity!, ’90s-style skate punk is just in the air lately, and here’s a great new album from one of the ...

Now in its third year, Orange County-based Brew Ha Ha Productions’ Punk in the Park festival has expanded its footprint to include a total of three stages led by punk and hardcore acts like Pennywise, ...

Steve Caballero on intersection of punk and skateboarding with new band Urethane Steve Caballero on intersection of punk and skateboarding with new band Urethane For Steve Caballero, the intersection ...

8 Tracks is your antidote to the algorithm. Each week, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich, with the help of his colleagues, makes connections between sounds across time. For the past few years, I've ...

This edition of In Defense of the Genre looks back on 23 albums from punk and pop punk’s pivotal year of 1997. 1997 was a banner year for pop punk. Green Day discovered ballads, blink-182 got their ...

The names Steve Alba, Duane Peters and Steve Caballero may not mean anything to most parents. But if you have a kid who loves to skateboard -- and this is highly likely, as skateboarding is hot right ...

Video might have killed the radio star, but increasingly it is pushing skateboarding—an “outsider” sport, by design—into the mainstream. Skateboarding, which grew out of surfing, has always been ...