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 ...

ATLANTA — On a cold weekend at the end of November, the four members of the punk band Algiers were holed up in an Atlanta warehouse that was repurposed as an art gallery, performing stripped-down ...

Drummer Matt Tong (second from right) with the members of Algiers. The band released its fourth album, Shook, in early 2023. Matt Tong's fashionably late arrival to this party hits twice as hard for ...

The most radical thing about the political rock band Algiers may be their ability to manifest grief. The group, whose three members hail from Atlanta and now live in London and New York, makes protest ...

On Sept. 11, 14th Street’s Black Cat celebrated its 28th anniversary with a concert featuring five bands and a DJ between sets. The headlining act was Algiers, an Atlanta-based rock quartet known for ...

Listening to Algiers is like cramming a Marxist treatise in one ear and a church organ in the other. Their music is a heady, vicious condemnation of bankrupt culture, ghosted gospel punk that snarls ...

A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...