The Grateful Dead and punk rock have largely occupied distant corners of the pop music universe, but the Bay Area jam band’s celebrated motto — “What a long, strange trip it’s been” — also describes ...

After going through many lineup changes and even replacing their singer, legendary punk band TSOL reformed with their original lineup in 2007 (except for drummer Todd Barnes who passed away in 1999).

Returning to Costa Mesa’s Westside to record their first album in a few years gave the members of vintage Orange County punk band TSOL a nostalgic feeling. It was like coming full circle for the band ...

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The new TSOL single and its unconventional release are either the least punk thing the band have done in their 41-year history—or maybe the most. The song itself is almost as old as their singer, Jack ...

Ask anyone to describe legendary West Coast punk outfit TSOL, and along with tales of larceny and a fast, “dark punk” sound with chorused-out guitars, they’ll tell you those guys were huge: Drummer ...

TSOL (True Sounds of Liberty), a Long Beach hardcore punk band that formed in 1979 and paved the way for other L.A. punk bands to follow, will play Brixton on the Redondo Beach Pier tonight. Tickets ...

In the dramatic, razor-sharpened lens of TSOL songs, suburbia is far from a sleepy wonderland bedecked with slick malls and coiffeured lawns. Those tracts of same-samey homes are chock-full of demons ...

TSOL (True Sounds of Liberty), a Long Beach hardcore punk band that formed in 1979 and paved the way for other L.A. punk bands to follow, will play Brixton on the Redondo Beach Pier tonight. Tickets ...

Friday was night Punk-o-rama night in Santa Ana, as hundreds swarmed to see hometown heroes TSOL and UK political punk party animals Anti-Nowhere League. The headliners, fronted by punk legend and ...

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 ...