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 voices of Schneider, Wilson and Pierson are incomparable, with Schneider’s being spoken more than sung, and that’s a huge ...

Smashing Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan has expressed his admiration and respect for his old friends Green Day, and stated his ...

New book 'Tearing Down the Orange Curtain' chronicles history of Southern California punk through interviews with Social Distortion, Sublime, more.

The below list of the Best Album by Punk's 15 Biggest Artists goes back to 1970, when the initial records of the genre began ...

Metal May” theme this month, part of what made alternative-metal so distinctive when it started blossoming in the late 80s ...

Casey Chong presents seven great vampire movies that may have went under you radar… The vampire genre is as old as time, stretching way back to 1922 and F.W. Murnau’s black-and-white horror ...

Morris died Sunday at the age of (probably) 80. It’s not that he’d had so much plastic surgery that he’d turned back the ...

Turnstile was founded by Frontman Brendan Yates, Drummer Daniel Fang, Bassist “Freaky” Franz Lyons, Guitarists Brady Ebert ...

After nearly a decade of battling addiction and homelessness, Ian Linden has hit a significant milestone: one year of ...

Evile join the Final Destination Bloodlines soundtrack alongside Creedence Clearwater Revival, Johnny Cash, and erm, Kelly ...

A popular pop-punk band much-beloved by the emo community has confirmed they’ve parted ways with one of their key members. And said emo community — in expected emo fashion — has practically pulled out ...