“This is the best song you’ll ever hear in your life!” yelled Eli Maniaci, the McFarland-based group’s 14-year-old frontman, ...

Love garage rock? Need some solid tracks to pad that garage rock playlist? These four songs aren’t just iconic in the garage rock genre, but they’re also considered by many to be one-hit wonders.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Larry Tamblyn (forefront) with the Standells, who recorded the garage-rock classic “Dirty Water” - Credit: Michael Ochs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Larry Tamblyn, who co-founded the garage-rock cult-favorite band the Standells, famous for the 1965 single “Dirty Water,” died ...

Cyanides make crate-digging music. The band’s self-titled debut LP, out now on Sinkhole Records, is the sound of a group for whom Lenny Kaye’s seminal 1972 compilation album, Nuggets, might as well be ...

The rock classic turns 60 this year.

Punk rock’s first wave didn’t last very long. It burned out nearly as quickly as the short songs of its most famous bands. But the scene wasn’t limited to what happened over a few years in the mid-70s ...

I’ve always been transparent about the fact that the Secret History of Chicago Music relies on other people. I get leads from the musicians I write about, from my knowledgeable friends, and from ...

For those looking for a hip-shaking good time, the Detroit Cobras will provide exactly that when they play The Crepe Place Thursday. Following the explosion of the White Stripes in the early 2000s, ...

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 ...