Born into a musical immigrant family, Alejandro Escovedo is a songwriting survivor who can weave together this country’s current tumult with past ghosts like few others. His newest album The Crossing explores characters caught freeze-framed in Ame...

Roky Erickson, lead visionary of psych-rock legends the 13th Floor Elevators, passed away last week due to unknown causes, but his music will continue to leave deep impressions. He blended occult matters with history, a genuine affection for monst...

Since the mid-1980s, controversial hardcore punk band Agnostic Front has seared audiences with their aggressive brand of music that attacks normal society, religion, and anything that causes conformity. Brandishing brash old school manic tendencie...

Punk was the hurricane that helped turn the tide of American music in the 1970s-1980s, a decade that followed the end of the Vietnam War and encompassed both the moribund, mostly forgotten Carter presidency and the controversial Ronald Reagan era....

Since 1980, the year-zero for the origin of hardcore punk in California's vast suburbia, the Adolescents have produced uncanny records that explore both the psyches of disaffected youth and the troubling news of the world. They combine infectious ...

With a voice that seems impure, authentic, and down-to-earth mesmerizing, Tyler Childers' narratives convey the forgotten places in the midlands of America — coal mine territory, river bed afternoons, gas station crime sprees, bills and babies. Pa...