A power player during San Francisco's punk era, Klein used his KSAN show and indie label 415 Records to amplify local bands ...
In 1985, some friends and I drove from my hometown, Springfield, Ill., to St. Louis, as we often did, to see a show. We went to see Hüsker Dü, who had just released Flip Your Wig, their last album on ...
As synthesizers and drum machines became more affordable in the 1980s, novel technology became as common in new wave groups as guitars were in the punk and rock and roll bands that preceded them. This ...
Devo, a documentary on the punk/new-wave band of that name, has dropped on Netflix. It’s an earnest, archive clip-packed attempt to convince you this odd band amounted to more than their one hit, ...
Before she commanded the stage as new wave’s “Queen of Quirk,” Lene Lovich was a self-described Wednesday Addams — a strange, quiet kid whose eccentric streak would become her signature. Now 76, the ...
Laura Garber “We Got Power!” by David Markey and Jordan Schwartz, explores the gritty, moral panicking punk scene Hermosa ...