The Chicago-based magazine Punk Planet–nominated for the past two years in Utne Reader‘s Alternate Press Awards for “General Excellence,” along with such better-heeled competitio By signing up, you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Punk rock band Fear caused mayhem on Saturday Night Live on Halloween in 1981, bringing a mosh-pit to Studio 8H for the first time ...

Original Fear members Lee Ving (left) and Spit Stix demonstrate how to grow old ungracefully. Credit: Via Fear's Facebook Page Get ready to be schooled in hardcore history, San Antonio. Fear — whose ...

One of the most chaotic and notorious musical performances in Saturday Night Live history took place on Halloween 1981. Fear, a Southern California punk rock band, were the night’s guests. The group ...

Saturday Night Live has had its share of scandalous music performances over the past 50 years, but one punk band’s 1981 appearance remains unforgettable. Los Angeles hardcore band Fear’s raucous ...

Four decades after Fear’s debut album shook up punk-rock morals for a generation, the band is recognizing its legacy with an expansive box-set reissue. Earlier this year, frontman Lee Ving and his ...

Lee Ving Christmas Gifts with Fear: L.A. punk vets Fear have been playing these Fuck Christmas shows, named after their 1982 single of the same name, for years now. In true punk fashion, they took it ...

Original Fear members Lee Ving (left) and Spit Stix demonstrate how to grow old ungracefully. Credit: Via Fear's Facebook Page Get ready to be schooled in hardcore history, San Antonio. Fear — whose ...

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 ...

Lee Ving still blames it on John Belushi. As is colorfully recounted in the new documentary “Ladies & Gentlemen … 50 Years of SNL Music,” Ving’s punk band Fear created a scene in NBC’s Studio 8H in ...

Fear has announced that the band will stop touring in the near future. Singer Lee Ving issued a statement that he has some sort of medical condition that is pending full medical diagnosis. He stated ...