A power player during San Francisco's punk era, Klein used his KSAN show and indie label 415 Records to amplify local bands ...

In 1985, some friends and I drove from my hometown, Springfield, Ill., to St. Louis, as we often did, to see a show. We went to see Hüsker Dü, who had just released Flip Your Wig, their last album on ...

With the Contortions and James White and the Blacks, the songwriter and saxophonist set out to challenge musicians and stir up audiences. By Jon Pareles James Chance, the singer, saxophonist and ...

New wave music was around before the early '80s when the genre first started an advancement onto the U.S. charts. Often seen as punk's poppier younger siblings, new wave artists often shared radio ...

Planta Industrial has already made a giant splash, winning new fans over with a punk-meets-metal-meets-dembow-meets-rap sound that is uniquely their own. The duo, comprised of Saso and akathedarknight ...

Punk rock’s first wave didn’t last very long. It burned out nearly as quickly as the short songs of its most famous bands. But the scene wasn’t limited to what happened over a few years in the mid-70s ...

“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, explores the darker side of classic ’80s alternative, including ...

There was Rock and Roll in 1956, Beatlemania in 1963, Flower Power in 1967, The Birth of Rock in 1970 and then there was… Punk and New Wave. Between 1976 and 1979 the music world and popular culture ...

Not many musical explosions define a generation and change music forever. There was Rock and Roll in 1956, Beatlemania in 1963, Flower Power in 1967, the birth of Rock in 1970 and then there was …..