Also this week on Acoustic Café, cool archived performances from Joy Clark, Valerie June, Mike Doughty and more.

A new album, Defenders of the City, takes some classic 80s arcade tracks and gives them a heavy metal makeover.

After a few weird years with replacement guitarists, the Bad Boys from Boston were back and ready to prove themselves. It did ...

Murray Attaway is the first to admit it’s been a minute. Throughout the ‘80s, he fronted the wildly underrated Georgia jangle ...

The Knockabouts recorded 15 blistering originals in a 1983 session at local recording studio Sound Cell. One of those songs, ...

Twenty years on from Rebel Yell and 10 years after overdosing on crack, Billy came back in 2005 with a trademark sneer and an ...

Chez Nous is open Wednesday and Thursday from 3 to 8 p.m., Friday from 3 to 9 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 9 ...

Divided chronologically by years, both the bite-sized and longer write-ups showcase the album’s cover, a bit about its ... Run DMC, LL Cool J, and New Edition. R.E.M., U2, and the Cure.

The pop star's new film is a feature-length study in his stardom that will leave you counting ceiling tiles instead.

Authors Nate Jackson and Daniel Kohn tell UCR how Mike Ness and Social Distortion influenced Orange County bands like the Offspring, No Doubt and Sublime.

The Goldenvoice celebration of all things postpunk, new wave and alternative landed at Brookside at the Rose Bowl on Saturday ...