A black leather bra is not the usual attire for a memorial service. Yet it was absolutely fitting at the gathering Monday to honor Wendy Orlean Williams, the punk rock legend who killed herself in ...

More than three decades later, they’ve all ended up as different people, all in different places. Rod Swenson was the Yale-educated conceptual artist, underground music promoter and gadfly of the New ...

Wendy O. Williams always said she liked to make “aggressive art,” and that’s what she did as the front woman for ’80s punk-metal band the Plasmatics — sporting a Mohawk on TV, wearing nothing but ...

UPDATE: Reports came in earlier today that eighteen–year–old Heroes star Hayden "Claire" Panettiere has been cast in the role of shock rock queen, Wendy O. Williams, singer of notorious '70s punks The ...

Punk-rocker Jean Beauvoir knew he’d eventually write a book about his life. There were just too many great stories to leave untold. Like playing voodoo drums and dancing with his uncle, a high-level ...

I woke up Sunday morning and turned on my Blog Top to find that Hollywood is making a Wendy O. Williams biopic. That’s badass. I love the Plasmatics. Hot naked punk chicks setting cars on fire and ...

Sorry, Plasmatics fans. There won’t be any exploding cars to ring in the new year at the Southwest Florida Performing Arts Center. Those days are long gone for ...

Pioneers of punkmetal fusion Wendy O Williams and the Plasmatics revolutionized the culture of American music with unparalleled live performances and jawdropping theatrics on and off stage Lightning ...

MVD has has announced plans to issue several releases on vinyl including new and previously unreleased tracks by Devo and the Dwarves, plus reissues by G.G. Allin, Wendy O. Williams and the Plasmatics ...

No one knew where punk pioneer Wendy O. Williams was going in life, least of all her. She liked music. She won a tap-dancing contest You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in ...

LOS ANGELES -- Pantera. Plasmatics. Black Sabbath. You know their music. Now hear their story. Hulu's eight-part docu-series, "Into The Void: Life, Death & Heavy Metal," pulls back the curtain on ...

Three hours of experimental punk rockers blowing up cars, smashing television sets and fighting cops, what more could any Plasmatics fan ask for? While everyone claims to know the ins and outs of punk ...