“Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac, yeah/The boy’s a time bomb.” Can anyone forget the first time they heard Armstrong’s shopping list of rebel style shouting out of a radio or MTV?

Basic Radio was not a traditional ska band, or even trying to emulate the 2 Tone Records sound in any way. The group, whose members included Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman, played rock, punk, and ...

Southern California’s punk rock history is often focused on Orange County and Los Angeles, but 60 miles east of L.A,. the youth of the Inland Empire were creating their own scene amid the smog and ...