“Here they come: the Blue Cheer! Run for your life!” That's how comedian Steve Allen introduced the power trio – bassist/vocalist Dickey Peterson, guitarist Leigh Stephens and drummer Paul Whaley – on ...

Rush drummer and Blue Cheer fan Neil Peart wrote the following in memory of singer/bassist Dickie Peterson, who died after a battle with liver cancer on October 12th: In the summer of 1968, I was ...

Holden was ahead of his time. Blue Cheer might be considered one of the fathers of heavy metal, but guitarist Randy Holden is one of the world's unsung fathers of doom. Holden's 1970 album Population ...

Irish singer-songwriter Fionn Regan‘s debut album, The End of History (Lost Highway), is as loud as a heartbeat in an empty room, reverberating with the firm, fluid confrontation of his bright-whisper ...