Brett Callwood

Can you legally be prevented from using your own surname? According to Dweezil Zappa, that's what his siblings are claiming in an acrimonious legal battle over rights to their father's music and estate....

Members of Femme Fatale, Poison Dollys, Precious Metal and Phantom Blue look back at the days when dudes dressed like ladies — and ladies couldn't get radio play....

With a 3-year-old and a 4-month-old in tow, Kelly Ogden and Luis Cabezas are back on the road in support of their latest, Whiplash Splash....

The "Goonies" star insists that he's 100 percent serious about his bid for pop stardom. If only the media would stop conspiring to keep him down....

The veteran rock singer didn't mean to insult those opening bands in Detroit, and those shows in Japan with George Lynch were a "onetime thing."...

In 1989, the lead singer of Fang killed his girlfriend in a drug-fueled rage. He did his prison time and says he's a changed man. But not everyone can forgive his past....

Plenty of first-generation punks are pretty cynical about the state of the music today. But Mike Palm isn't one of them....

"We were misplaced," frontman and sole remaining original member Joe Leste says of his band's short-lived run at the tail end of the hair metal era....

The frontwoman and sole remaining original member of pioneering goth-punks 45 Graves sees a parallel between the early '80s and the dark political climate of today....

"There will always be an audience for ska," says VGS frontman Frank Casillas. And clearly he's right — the veteran Riverside band is still going strong after nearly 30 years....