Bay Area punk-rock pioneer Jello Biafra has embarked in numerous high-profile collaborations in the decades since the mid-1980s dissolution of the legendary Dead Kennedys. While he has teamed with the likes of Ministry's Al Jourgensen in the industrial-punk project Lard and tracked classic albums wi ... More >>
Negative ApproachBad AnticsGuantanamo DogpileGreat American Music HallFeb. 9, 2013Better than: Anything else you can buy for $5As the last chord of the song rang out, John Brannon's grimace took center stage. The front man of pioneering Detroit hardcore outfit Negative Approach stood still, looking ... More >>
OFF! Fidlar Friday, March 11, 2012 Slim's Better than: Posing for a Raymond Pettibon drawing. At Slim's on Friday, OFF! demonstrated the potency of throwback hardcore delivered with surgical precision by seasoned players. But singer Keith Morris should stop trying to qualify his band by expounding ... More >>
​Subhumans@Bottom of the HillJune 12, 2010Better than: Shoegaze, twee or drone.Skinny, disheveled and bespectacled, Subhumans lead singer Dick Lucas is among an endangered species of classic 1980s punk icons. Darby Crash of The Germs is dead. Sid Vicious is dead. Steve Ignorant of Crass is rarely ... More >>
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Once considered just another L.A. rock casualty, former Thelonious Monster leader Bob Forrest returns to the land of the living with the Bicycle Thief
