ROANOKE, VA (WVNS) – Eighties punk rock band Violent Femmes is stopping in our region. According to the Violent Femmes ...

Formed as an acoustic punk band in 1981 in Milwaukee, the Violent Femmes eponymous debut album became the first and only album in Billboard history to enter the charts with a platinum certification—a ...

When you think of a power trios in rock, you may think of Rush, ZZ Top, Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience or Nirvana — bands that packed a punch through a stack of amps. But consider the unexpected ...

Gordon Gano wrote the lyrics to the song that would change his life, “Blister in the Sun,” when he was 15. High school didn’t interest him and neither did his hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Instead ...

The Violent Femmes’ song “Blister in the Sun” is one of the songs of the 1980s. It’s both a cult classic and a pop hit with the acoustic opening, that piercing cartoonish voice, and those ...