Gang of Four earned a rep as rock’s foremost Marxist apologists in the post-punk era—while signed to übercapitalistic corporations like EMI in the UK and Warner Bros. in the US. Whether you call that ...

Danceable and politicised no wave songs made them the toast of downtown New York in the early 1980s. Having reformed, the band recall the hedonism of the age In 1980, Pat Place was working in the box ...

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 ...

Mention the term “post-punk” and thoughts of politicized lyrics set to obtuse rhythms with swathes of angular guitars immediately spring to mind. Yet while that may be true to some extent, it only ...