As soon as the bouncy guitar riff from Violent Femmes’ enduring pop hit, “Blister in the Sun,” comes on the stereo, likely you’re immediately boosted into a good mood. Then the childlike snare drums ...

The Violent Femmes’ song “Blister in the Sun” is one of the songs of the 1980s. It’s both a cult classic and a pop hit with the acoustic opening, that piercing cartoonish voice, and those ...

The Violent Femmes 2024 Tour will start on May 1 in San Francisco, California at The Warfield. Pending additional tour dates, the tour should end on May 18 in Detroit ...

Violent Femmes wrapped up their fall tour with a homecoming concert at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee on Oct. 19. It was their second consecutive night performing in their hometown, the setlist ...

The post Violent Femmes Announce Spring 2025 US Tour Performing First Two Albums appeared first on Consequence. Violent Femmes have announced a new Spring 2025 US tour leg during which they’ll perform ...

Gordon Gano wrote the lyrics to the song that would change his life, “Blister in the Sun,” when he was 15. High school didn’t interest him and neither did his hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Instead ...

The charitable way to describe We Can Do Anything, the first Violent Femmes record in 15 years, is that it's a back-to-basics record; a less charitable perspective is that it's a pale Silly Putty copy ...