The new Gang of Four vinyl reissues & box set are available in the BV shop. BrooklynVegan: Firstly, congrats on this amazing box set, it’s such an amazing package. What is it like 45 years since the ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to a patron of the party, musician George Brown of the band Kool & The Gang, about his new book, new record, and the "Celebration" of a long and funky career. KOOL AND THE ...

Dave Allen, bassist in post-punk band Gang of Four’s core lineup before co-founding the British rock group Shriekback, has died at the age of 69. Allen’s former Gang of Four band mate, drummer Hugh ...

Dave Allen, the founding bassist of the highly influential British post-punk band Gang of Four and the funk-inflected group Shriekback, died last Saturday, according to a post from GO4 drummer Hugo ...

Order Gang of Four’s ’77-81′ and the reissues of ‘Entertainment!’ and ‘Solid Gold’ in the BV shop. Signed to EMI in the UK, the band were never totally happy with their U.S. deal with Warner Bros, and ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Guitarist Andy Gill, who supplied the scratching, seething sound that fueled the highly influential British punk band Gang of Four, died Saturday, according to a statement from the ...

Hugo Burnham’s Endicott College faculty profile doesn’t mention anything about Burnham opening up for the Buzzcocks in the ’70s. It doesn’t talk about Burnham mentoring REM or a song getting banned by ...

Hip-hop was the first love of Zimbabwean music duo Wonder Gang. When brothers T.K. Savage and Keith Wonder arrived in the U.S. as teenagers, they learned to navigate the culture by way of bars from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE- In this Feb. 8, 2011, file photo, Gang of Four's guitarist Andy Gill and singer Jon King, left, perform a concert at Webster ...

Exploring several avenues in the music industry, Dave Allen appeared in bands like The Elastic Purejoy, Low Pop Suicide, and Shriekback. But for most, they remember the musician for his time in the ...