In this modern musical era where singles rule, the idea of an artist putting out a cohesive piece of work as an album carries far less cultural impact than it used to. Though its become increasingly ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Songs change your life. Maybe it was a record spinning in sleepy coastal town on a trip to Europe, a dubbed cassette you used to ...

The popular folk punk trio will take the Suburban Park stage at 8 p.m on Friday, Sept. 4. The concert is free with fair ...

“I made up songs as soon as I could speak,” says Gordon Gano, the jovial singer and guitarist of Violent Femmes, a band that seemed fully formed when Gano was still a teenager. The band’s self-titled ...

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 ...

Originally scheduled for last week, but rescheduled due to the threat of Helene, an evening with the Violent Femmes (no opening act) was a satisfying trip back in time for the sold-out crowd at the ...

Violent Femmes are gearing up for a tour that will end in Milwaukee. After a sold-out show, the band added a second concert at the Riverside Theater. Drummer John Sparrow joined FOX6 WakeUp News.

Self-described man-about-town and avid music fan Tim Center encountered the band Violent Femmes in 1984 when he was a teenage freshman at Florida State University. Lead singer Gordon Gano’s songs ...

The Violent Femmes will be back on the road this fall for a tour that hits US cities across the Northeast and Midwest, including Providence, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, Milwaukee, Red Bank, and ...

Violent Femmes wrapped up their fall tour with a homecoming concert at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee on Oct. 19. It was their second consecutive night performing in their hometown, the setlist ...

Their name is the Violent Femmes. They sound like folk, punk, rednecks, they cuss in their songs (gasp), and their music was unlike anything I had experienced when I was first played their album. That ...