Germs News

Robert Cray at Antone's . Cray was amazingly popular in the 1980s, one of the few bluesmen, along with Stevie Ray Vaughan and George Thorogood, who was able to get radio airplay across formats .

Last Saturday I crowded with a hundred or so of the most tattooed, pierced, unwashed people I'd ever seen in the basement of a seedy punk house in West Philadelphia known as the Shore House.

As Jersey laments the passing of a sopped and sunless June, we set our hopes high for the coming of Independence Day weekend, when the fire in the sky can't compare to what sears on the stage.

Sometimes more than one famous person dies on the same day. If you're the less famous one, your tragic-death hype will be overshadowed by the tragic-death hype of the more famous person.

You've only got one option here: Accept it as passion, or deride it as impression.

A sure sign you're getting old: Punk bands from the '70s are doing reunion tours.

Summer has finally come around and gee looks like we skipped the pleasantly warm to head straight into the blazing hotness.

West played Crash in The Germs' biopic What We Do Is Secret , and will be center stage with the punk legends at Reggie's Rock Club tonight.

Friday 6.19 SMOKEY ROBINSON Smokey Robinson recently appeared on Elvis Costello's Sundance Channel talk show The Spectacle, sounding and looking like he'd spent the past few decades in a vacuum, his voice nearly flawless after all these years.

In Section: Music Blog >> Posted By: Jamie Gadette Kick off the first official summer weekend with SLC's downtown gallery stroll.

DOWNLOAD: The Strange Boys - Heard You Wanna Beat Me Up Strange Boys... The Saturday, June 13th show at the Market Hotel seemed to be running pretty closely on schedule.

Seminal, reunited punk band the Germs play Neumos tonight with Poison Idea, Krum Bums and the Bloodclots .

The band, featuring actor Shane West fronting the remaining members of the group's best-known lineup--guitarist Pat Smear, bassist Lorna Doom and drummer Don Bolles--will kick off the outing June 12 in Sacramento, CA.

As the garage/trash rock part of punk rock began to gain a foothold among mainstream music fans, hardcore started poking its head out and beyond its subcult audience... in Los Angeles, the South Bay was nurturing this movement, as was Orange County, with LA's own Germs laying the foundation for that movement at the dawn of the LA punk era... Over ...

As if we needed additional examples at this point, here's another piece of irrefutable proof that our years are advancing wildly and unstoppably: the slow but certain emergence of '80s music biopics.

On Tuesday I became a sputtering fan boy as I got to interview one of my musical heroes, Greg Ginn, for next Thursday's Live in the Clubs story.

Darby Crash / The Germs A full year before the notorious and legendary Elks Lodge Riot, there were indeed completely successful punk rock gigs held at downtown LA's Elk Lodge -- and by successful, I mean no ...

Despite going by the nickname Fat Mike for most of his adult life, Michael Burkett's most prominent trait isn't the fact that he's overweight.

Author and veteran punk drummer Joel Gausten has published his latest offering, "Words From The Third Side: Essays on Sex, Satan & Success" . An autobiographical tale, "Words" chronicles Gausten 's experiences ...

There's method acting, and then there's what Brooklyn-born rapper Jamal Woolard endured to become Biggie Smalls for “Notorious,” the recently released biopic detailing the life of Christopher ...