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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

Much like The Flamin’ Groovies, The Rubinoos began in 1970, playing short, poppy Beatlesque power-pop tunes in an era dominated by hippie jam bands. The Berkeley group were considered terribly unhip ...

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 ...

So far, the 21st century has been a particularly active period for fun Berkeley-born pop-rockers the Rubinoos. The 47-year-old band, known for playing in fits and starts, is closing out a gig-filled ...