It only took four notes for the crowd to ignite into a song about drug use, possibly masturbation on Saturday night at the Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory. The song became a cult classic in the ’80s ...

“I made up songs as soon as I could speak,” says Gordon Gano, the jovial singer and guitarist of Violent Femmes, a band that seemed fully formed when Gano was still a teenager. The band’s self-titled ...

Phil Kettner remembers the first time he saw Metallica live. “My first reaction was, ‘Oh wow, it’s punk rock with long hair,’” says Kettner, who was guitarist with San Francisco proto-thrashers Lääz ...