July Fourth crab feasts, rooftop parties and a hot-dog-eating contest are on the agenda, along with outdoor movies, concerts ...

Ozzy Osbourne teamed up with fellow Brummies Geezer Butler, Bill Ward and Tony Iommi in the late 1960s to form the hugely influential Black Sabbath and pretty much invented heavy metal. The group ...

For those not looking for fireworks and parades, check out these Things to Do in North Jersey this weekend, July 3 to July 6.

Dark Thoughts make fast music, but that doesn’t mean they make it quickly. For a long time now, the Philadelphia DIY rippers have been cranking out the sort of elemental punk rock that seems to be a ...

With heavy metal officially coming home to Birmingham on July 5 for the massive Back To The Beginning gig by Black Sabbath ...

Birmingham remains a hotbed of musical activity in the 21st Century. Formed by members of Birmingham bands Table Scraps and ...

Some members of the local music scene have heard of St. Louis music venue Red Flag, the self-described “successor to heavy metal, hardcore and hip-hop venue Fubar,” according to their website. However ...

While they might be best known for forming multiple L.A. punk bands (the biggest of which being Youth Brigade) starting in the late ’70s, the Stern brothers were also responsible for BYO Records ...

If we had to pick the best albums by 14 different grunge bands, these would be our picks. Grunge spanned a wide array of groups, mostly which formed in the Pacific Northwest during the late '80s ...

But most bands on the Phoenix punk scene of the early ‘80s had their own thing going on. “None of the bands were really your stereotypical punk-rock bands or New Wave bands,” Beram says.

Overnight, the Kirkwoods' band Meat Puppets skyrocketed from '80s underground icons to '90s mainstream rock stars. But in the '70s, Curt, Cris and their drummer Derrick Bostrom were high schoolers in ...

But Simple Minds saw their chance and went for it. Rock music in the 80s was defined by scale as much as by anything else. It was the era of big arena rock that grew into massive stadium rock.