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 ...
If the horn melodies and up-stroked guitar chords of Goldfinger's "Superman" conjure memories of doing kickflips or sitting in front of your TV, playing video games in the late '90s or early 2000s, ...
blink-182 producer John Feldmann recently said that the band were “getting in touch with their roots” during the recording sessions for their new music, and you can very much hear that on their ...
Skateboarding may have started in California, but Arizona was home to the country's first skatepark. This is the story of Dry ...
Vans Warped Tour may have thrown in the towel, but the bands that have ridden its punk/metalcore/alt-rock wave continue to gig across the country. Take skate punk mainstays Teenage Bottle Rocket, for ...
Members of the Cedarloo Skateboard Association have attended similar events since the early 2000s, and the organization brought back the popular July 4 trick show about 10 years ago. Brian Helmrichs, ...
It's difficult to think of games whose soundtrack had a bigger impact on an entire generation than the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series. Popular music had been a part of games for decades: Journey Escape ...
The Utah State University Skateboard Club held its First Annual Costume Party at the Park at the Logan Skatepark Wednesday ...
Every so often — a few nights a week when things are going smoothly — Chris Gronowski and his staff clear out the entire center of Programme Skate & Sound’s main room. T-shirt stands are moved to the ...
A punk stole a kid’s skateboard and then punched him in the nose on Oct. 18 near the corner of Hoyt and Pacific streets. The victim, who is 14, was skating home to Bond Street at 1:40 pm when the perp ...
This edition of In Defense of the Genre looks back on 23 albums from punk and pop punk’s pivotal year of 1997. 1997 was a banner year for pop punk. Green Day discovered ballads, blink-182 got their ...