In 1976, The Runaways stormed onto the music scene. Just as the disco craze was beginning to take over, producer Kim Fowley’s curated all-female teen punk band released the hard-rocking rebellion song ...

Riot grrrl greats Bratmobile officially returned to the stage after 20 years this weekend at the Mosswood Meltdown festival in Oakland (after making their unofficial return with a secret show in Los ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cherie Currie, who was the lead singer for The Runaways, will play some of the band's songs in a Halloween show at Fitzgerald's.

She can still rock like it's 1982.

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Warning: this story concerns sexual assault and has and has some graphic descriptions. The girl rock group The Runaways rocked the 70s with hits like “Cherry Bomb” and “Wild Thing.” Guitarist Joan ...

Once upon a time — before MTV, before hits by the Clash became elevator music, when baby boomers were taking Quaaludes instead of breaking hips — rock ‘n’ roll was something amazingly raw and filthy. ...

As you know Dakota Fanning plays Cherie Currie (alongside Kristen “Ow! I Keep Biting My Lip!” Stewart) in the upcoming biopic about punky girl group The Runaways ...

In the ’70s, there was no other band quite like the Runaways. Formed in Los Angeles in 1975 by impresario Kim Fowley, the band consisted entirely of tough teenage girls who sang and played their own ...

Musician Cherie Currie is a big believer in intuition. Back in the '70s, it’s what put her on the path that led to her becoming the lead singer for the Runaways, the all-girl band that produced such ...