The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. That’s Rad!, a local pop punk cover band, presented the second annual “A Very Pop ...

Awash in the glow of red and green stage lights, Tim Convy belts out a rendition of “Feliz Navidad” and encourages the audience to sing along. The Ludo keyboardist is dressed in a festive red suit, ...

What are the holidays even without some tortured grumbling about stupid parents and authority figures and maybe even a little … emoting? Maybe this pop-punk covers event will bring the tuneful ...

In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk, pop punk, emo, hardcore, post-hardcore, ska-punk, and more, including and often especially the bands and albums and subgenres that ...

This weekend brings a mix of holiday, rock, rap and punk shows to Chicago and the suburbs West suburban trumpeter Pete Ellman brings his big, bold and brassy holiday celebration to The Venue in Aurora ...

There is no one correct way to celebrate the holiday season in song. For some, reverence is key. But often the best Yuletide numbers are the ones that fiddle around with tradition, taking the familiar ...

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 ...