Rock-and-roll music was a monstrously renegade force back in the 1950s, driving parents of teenagers to their martini shakers and ministers to their pulpits to proclaim the end of morality and ...

Los Angeles’ indie/funk/punk band Espresso has released a new single and video titled “Bottles.” Espresso has been traversing the Echo Park/Silver Lake DIY scene and beyond since 2015, winning fans ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When it comes to funk music royalty, few artists embodied the genre’s flamboyance, power, and unfiltered creativity quite like Rick James. The self-proclaimed “King of Punk Funk” ...

February is Black History Month — and each week, all month, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison is here to talk about a different trailblazer and maverick of Black music. These musicians took risks ...

Trying to convince someone punk‘s not dead? Introducing your kids to the iconic genre? Here are three classic punk rock songs to get you started, featuring bands from the Bay Area, L.A., and ...

The acoustic punk song is a time-honored tradition that has seen a rise — due to necessity — during this year of isolation. This edition of In Defense of the Genre looks at 30 songs from throughout ...

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 ...