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 ...

Back in the day, quite a few pop acts were making hay off the tune "I Think We're Alone Now," a romantic nugget credited to songwriters Ritchie Cordell (music) and Bo Gentry (lyrics), who later noted ...

The Rubinoos: Live at Rockpalast 1978 (MIG, DVD and CD, 50:28 each). In mid-March of 1978, Earth Quake, Greg Kihn Band and ...

It wasn’t just punk that arose as an alternative to what many viewed as the overblown, corporate-flavored excess of 1970s rock. Along with punk, a kind of proto-indie pop was simmering, and a notable ...

The Rubinoos are back, at least in a bigger way, with more than a little help from a friend. By Gary Graff The Rubinoos are back, at least in a bigger way, with more than a little help from a friend.

Exactly forty years after The Rubinoos capped their original and unlikely rise to fame with the Beserkley Records classic Back To The Drawing Board!, the definitive line-up featuring Jon Rubin, Tommy ...

The Rubinoos are a frequent and welcome presence on 70s compilations, thanks to their graceful and charming reading of Tommy James' I Think We're Alone Now. But do they really merit a 63-track ...

In a just universe you would give this bio your full and sustained attention. And in a just universe the story contained herein would be adapted and produced as a PBS American Mastersprogram ...

Power pop fans rejoice. Two of the genre's pioneering bands, one a former Hoboken institution, are touring together for the first time and will play a couple of rare New Jersey gigs this week. "I'm ...

RCA singer Avril Lavigne is being sued by two co-songwriters who claim that her hit "Girlfriend" sounds like a track their American power pop band recorded in the '70s. By Billboard Staff RCA singer ...

The Rubinoos formed when American power pop musicians Tommy Dunbar and Jon Rubin were still in junior high school. By age fourteen, after playing a few school dances, Rubin and friends graduated to ...