“As a drummer, let me tell you, in my experience it’s all the same,” says Chip Hanna, longtime skin hitter for punk stalwarts U.S. Bombs and One Man Army and, nowadays, country singer, songwriter, and ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Texas-based punk/country-blues songwriter Scott H. Biram brings his current tandem tour with former Butthole Surfers/Melvins bass player turned solo banjo plucker JD Pinkus ...

Should Tempe's Meat Puppets be more revered? Of course they should. That's why the BBC included them on a list of 15 badly ...

‘CRAZY ARMS’ From high school band to busking on the streets of Santa Cruz, Lomes Oleander, center, is driven by music and ultimately formed Pigeon Pit, pictured here, in Olympia, Washington. (Photo ...

Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium hosted its first broadcast of the Grand Ole Opry radio show in 1943. It’s since been dubbed the “Mother Church of Country Music”—a sanctimonious epithet, but one justified ...

Thirty years ago, alt-country/punk legends the Supersuckers opened for the Ramones and White Zombie at Hara Arena. GeeGee Bradley was at that show. Now, three decades later, nearly to the day, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stream Lucero's Sprawling, Raucous 'Live From Atlanta' LP Sitting outside of Tartine Bakery on a Thursday afternoon, Lucero’s Ben ...

From her home in Oxford, Mississippi, the folk-blues, country-rock singer-songwriter Shannon McNally calls to talk about her latest album, Black Irish, produced by country music legend Rodney Crowell ...

Banjo player, backup vocalist and veteran member J. Bratlie says his band Dirtfoot is the “old guy” of Shreveport’s music scene. But that doesn’t mean the gypsy-punk-country-grumble-boogie machine is ...

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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 ...