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 ...

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

Kristen Stewart returns to the world of vampires – but this time, it's worlds away from Twilight's glittering romance (though ...

If you were acquainted with Cave through his nihilism in the years of The Birthday Party or with the '90s version of the Bad ...

The 2025 Just Like Heaven festival this past weekend featured an all-star lineup filled with favorites from the 2000s and ...