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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 ...

Songwriting can be confusing, says Kenny Tudrick. “It’s like a mystery. But you learn not to question it — you just go with it.” Credit: Drea Duchene Somewhere along the banks of the Black River in ...

The Detroit Cobras have always been a cover band. The casual listener, however, wouldn’t know it. The Cobras aren’t a cover band in the pejorative sense that brings to mind pandering, weekend-warrior ...

For those looking for a hip-shaking good time, the Detroit Cobras will provide exactly that when they play The Crepe Place Thursday. Following the explosion of the White Stripes in the early 2000s, ...

LA Shows Up for the Detroit Cobras and Rachel Nagy: This one, quite frankly, was incredibly sad. When Rachel Nagy, singer with the Detroit Cobras, died at her New Orleans home at the start of 2022, ...

Usually I try to feature just one band in this column, but the lineup for the Wed., Aug. 22 show at the Neurolux is just too cool not to mention them all.

In our print feature with Catfight Coffee, Acey Slade told us that, “As long as I can remember, I’ve loved coffee. Where this started to become an idea was when I was playing with Joan Jett. We were ...