Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gordon Gano's beaming eyes and huge smile said it all before he uttered a word. "It was such a special night," the Violent Femmes ...

Singer/guitarist Gordon Gano, bassist Brian Ritchie and drummer Victor DeLorenzo formed Violent Femmes in 1981, developing their unique folk-punk sound in the coffee shops of Milwaukee and busking on ...

Gordon Gano was still a high school kid when he wrote all the songs on Violent Femmes’ 1983 self-titled debut, an album that captured teen angst with songs such as “Blister In The Sun,” “Add It Up” ...

In 1983, Milwaukee trio Violent Femmes released their self-titled debut, an album that would quickly enter the college-rock pantheon for its spirited acoustic punk. Forty years later, Craft Recordings ...

This year, the Violent Femmes’ eponymous first album marks its 40th anniversary, celebrated with a new deluxe edition. It’s a remarkable milestone, to be sure, for the post-punk rock band that ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Gordon Gano's beaming eyes and huge smile said it all before he uttered a word. "It was such a special night," the Violent Femmes frontman said from the Bradley Symphony Center stage following the ...