A power player during San Francisco's punk era, Klein used his KSAN show and indie label 415 Records to amplify local bands ...

The ’80s and ’90s were a fun time for punk rock in South Florida. And though there wasn’t a major publishing house putting out every single local album recorded, we were fortunate enough to have a few ...

Just a few years before he founded Hopeless Records in his early 20s, Louis Posen thought he saw a future for himself in the film industry. That was before doctors diagnosed him with retinitis ...

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 ...

In 1993, a guy referred to as “the Paul Newman of punk rock” was just a 22-year-old college kid losing his eyesight due to retinitis pigmentosa and wanting to start a record label. Louis Posen was a ...

In 1992, MRR published an influential guidebook on how to set up a tour called “Book Your Own F–kin’ Life,” which helped sow the seeds of a punk explosion. By the mid-1990s, groups like The Offspring ...

The music scene in Phoenix has often been hard to categorize. Sure, folks love a lot of metal, punk and hardcore around these parts, but we’ve also got solid scenes around country, electronic and even ...

A renowned indie punk record label based out of Albany is expanding. Equal Vision Records cut the ribbon Wednesday at its new space at 400 South Pearl St. The business was founded in the early 1990s ...

As part of the acquisition, Fat Wreck Chords' roster's unrecouped balances will be waived, and Hopeless has agreed to a no-new-signings policy to keep focused on Fat Wreck's current roster. By Ethan ...

In Haight-Ashbury, where counterculture echoes through the streets, a new record store is turning up the volume on punk. More than just a shop for vinyl, tapes and CDs, I Hate Records is carving out a ...

The music sounds chaotic, but as a movement, punk rock has always been surprisingly well organized. Long before widespread adoption of the Internet, small independent bands could plan international ...