Brian Setzer revitalised the rockabilly scene with his band The Stray Cats in the early 1980s, during the time he was living in the UK. After the initial success of the band and his various solo ...

Despite being overshadowed by their London and New York counterparts, left-coast punksters X flourished in the late 70s and early 80s, grinding out dirty, blistering rock in dingy nightclubs.

There’s something so immediately appealing about rockabilly music that it’s easy to assume the invigorating style has been a bestselling fixture on the pop scene ever since its start in the ‘50s in ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Let's continue our week of interviews from our archive with R&B, rockabilly and early rock 'n' roll musicians and songwriters. Up next, we have Carl Perkins, one of ...

In a 1984 interview with The Tribune, Rick Nelson talked about a decision he had made to return to the rockabilly sound that had marked his earliest recordings. When he began his pop-music career as a ...

Rockabilly bounced into the spotlight in the 1950s when Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Bill Haley and other legends rocked country-boogie, hillbilly and rhythm & blues with a slapped bass sound that ...

SoCal rockabilly pioneer Larry Collins and friends pay tribute to his late sister, singer Lorrie Collins Guitarist-singer-songwriter Larry Collins, center, performs in Santa Ana in front of the ...

On the title track of his new CD, Greenwood’s Mack Allen Smith sings, “Well I’m growing old and it may sound silly, but I still love my rockabilly / I can’t explain it so please don’t ask me why / ...

When the much-anticipated 20th-anniversary celebration of the Hootenanny Festival was suddenly canceled two years ago, lovers of the annual event, which included rockabilly, alt-country and old-school ...

On a small corner stage at Chopper John’s, Marco Polo’s getting ready to perform with his Mexican psychobilly trio, Curse of the Pink Hearse. Most of the patrons at this biker bar on east Indian ...