Ric Ocasek

New exclusive vinyl: Bad Religion's 'The Gray Race' on limited-to-200 "grape" LP

Our latest exclusive vinyl variant is a limited-to-200, ”grape” colored repress of Bad Religion’s Ric Ocasek-produced 1996 LP ‘The Gray Race,’ their first with Brian Baker and the home of many fan faves…

Bad Brains interview: Darryl Jenifer discusses the band's classic '80s records

Ahead of Bad Brains’ reissue campaign, Darryl Jenifer looked back on the first decade of Bad Brains’ career, from helping to pioneer hardcore in their early days to embracing metal in the ‘Quickness’ era, and he told all kinds of history from in-between.

Q&A w/ Motion City Soundtrack on "lost" Mark Hoppus-produced song, social justice, COVID, more

Justin Courtney Pierre discusses being a band during a time of political unrest and during a pandemic, as well as the recently unearthed ”lost” Motion City Soundtrack song, the late Adam Schlesinger, and more…

watch Nada Surf pay tribute to Ric Ocasek in Boston, cover "Just What I Needed"

Nada Surf’s winter tour hit Boston’s The Sinclair on Saturday night and at it, the band paid tribute to hometown hero Ric Ocasek — who produced Nada Surf’s 1996 debut album

8 New Songs Out Today

Listen to new songs by Caroline Polachek, Mark Hoppus (covering The Cars), Mary Lattimore, Stormzy, Spearmint, Blut Aus Nord, and more.

Weezer, Billy Idol, Nada Surf, The Hold Steady & more artists pay tribute Ric Ocasek

Billy Corgan, Courtney Love, Jason Isbell, Flea, Alice Cooper, AC Newman, Tom Morello, Bette Midler, and more have paid tribute to The Cars frontman who died this weekend…

Ric Ocasek (The Cars), RIP

Ric Ocasek, who fronted new wave hitmakers The Cars, died on Sunday in New York City at age 75….

The NY Times names hundreds more artists who lost masters in 2008 UMG fire

Just about every area of recorded music was hit by the fire, from jazz to punk to cabaret to comedy, new wave, historical speeches, metal, hip hop, you name it.

Martin Rev, Eugene Hutz, Ric Ocasek & more played Suicide tribute @ Bowery Electric (pics)

Bowery Electric’s “Sally Can’t Dance” party hosted a tribute to Suicide and the late Alan Vega on Thursday (1/25) that featured a whole host of notable folk, including Martin Rev, Ric Ocasek, Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hutz, Jesse Malin, Joseph Arthur, Bob Bert, and more…

Martin Rev, Ric Ocasek, Eugene Hutz & more playing Suicide tribute @ Bowery Electric

Also on the bill: Kid Congo, Bob Bert (Sonic Youth), JG Thirlwell (Foetus), Jesse Malin, Peter Zaremba (Fleshtones) and more.
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