In recent times, punk bands have gravitated toward two styles – speedy thrash and Ramones-style poppy punk. But the style that really pushed punk forward to the masses, and which is all but missing ...

Gang of Four‘s signature style — a mix of punk, funk, disco, dub and radical politics — is so iconic at this point, it’s come to define a large portion of what gets referred to as “post-punk.” When ...

Fact: Guitar solos are awesome. Plain and simple. They’re just as much fun to see live as they are to listen to, as they fully display the guitarist’s raw passion for the instrument. While solos are a ...

These guitar heroes from punk rock's past deserve more love for being as insanely talented at the axe as they were.

Remember those first two Stooges records in the late ’60s, before Iggy Pop’s name was out front or Bowie worked his way into the production chair? The proto-punk that the band created was chaotic, ...

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 ...