SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Roy Loney, the fiery lead singer who fronted legendary San Francisco proto-punk garage rockers The Flamin' Groovies before splitting off for a solo career, has died at age 73 ...

After re-forming last year, the Groovies toured Japan and Australia in addition to playing several California dates and performing at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tribute to the Rolling Stones. More ...

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 ...

Cyril Jordan is like Woody Allen in Zelig: He was always there in the scene; it’s just that you missed him. His band, the Flamin’ Groovies, San Francisco’s answer to the Rolling Stones — Mick Jagger ...

In recent years rock and roll has provided some surprising second acts. Television, Big Star, Roky Erickson and Rocket From the Tombs are among those whose unexpected returns yielded quality beyond ...

Six decades after the fact, Cyril Jordan doesn’t waver when asked how the Flamin’ Groovies, one of rock’s favorite cult bands, found its name. “We were the Chosen Few, which I thought was extremely ...

The Flamin’ Groovies would prefer to take the oft-bestowed label as one of the “greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands you’ve never heard of” and kick it to the curb. And yet, 50 years since their humble San ...

When legendary rock critic Greil Marcus was dreaming up the idea to tell “The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs,” as his 2014 book came to be titled, he says, "I knew from that instant that the ...

San Francisco’s retro minded Flamin’ Groovies released a trinity of albums in quick succession for the Sire label in the mid-late 70s. The final two of these (Now from 1978, and 1979’s Jumpin’ in the ...

The Flamin' Groovies, founded nearly 50 years ago, were always a step out of time. The San Francisco band was playing R&B-inspired rock in the '60s when their contemporaries were lost in a psychedelic ...

Let’s step out on a limb and make some grand statements about the Flamin’ Groovies, the San Francisco band that nearly 50 years after forming turned up at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles on Wednesday.