“Where is the focus?” That is the question that Mike Watt fired back at me when I asked him what advice he would give to aspiring musicians. To translate, Watt is challenging a new generation of ...

Special guests Petra Haden and Mike Watt play songs and discuss Petra's new cd: Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out. It is the latest chapter in the always provocative, often unpredictable yet never ...

Not every man can combine a love of Hieronymus Bosch, The Wizard of Oz and punk rock into a 30-song treatise on middle age, let alone make it a compelling listen. Not every man can combine a love of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Revisit the essay J Mascis’ Greatest Guitar Shreds on Other People’s Songs and read Zach Schonfeld’s Saturday Track Review of ...

Mike Watt has discovered the fountain of youth. It’s not some secret garden nectar, but a lifelong love affair with music. “Punk rock keeps you young,” he says from his San Pedro perch. “One of the ...

The influential band’s singer and guitarist died at 27, but the bassist Mike Watt and the drummer George Hurley never lost his spirit. By Bob Mehr Reporting from San Pedro in Los Angeles D. Boon — the ...

“Our band could be your life. Realnames’d be proof. Me and Mike Watt, we played for years. Punk rock changed our lives.” — from “History Lesson Part II” by the Minutemen Source: Photo credit: Matt ...