Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The director of Speak No Evil has an explanation as to why a hit ballad from The Bangles ...

Michael Steele, the iconic musician behind the legendary bands The Bangles and The Runaways, is ringing in her 71st birthday. Born on June 2, 1955, the California native, whose real name is Susan ...

The Bangles made such an impact on the 80s music scene that it’s hard to believe they only released three albums in that decade. It might be even harder to grasp that their recorded output stayed ...

When they started out at the beginning of the 1980s, The Bangles' members were never part of the Los Angeles punk scene that slightly predated them, with bands such as X, the Germs and the other ...

The Bangles, the Dream Syndicate, the Rain Parade, and the Three O'Clock, four of the biggest bands to come out of Los Angeles' Paisley Underground scene in the mid-'80s, have once again joined forces ...

The Bangles are timeless. The all-female band, armed with an ability to make lasting pop tunes that today still glisten and gleam with their inextinguishable spirit, ruled the 1980s and continue to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the '80s, there were few bands cooler than the Bangles. Along with the Go-Go's, they were one of the essential groups to prove ...

They needn't have worried – at least about the way it would be received. The cover, which Vicki described as having a "gnarly guitar tone with a pop choral feel, sort of a cross between the Mamas and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eighties icons: Susanna Hoffs, Michael Steele, Debbi Peterson and Vicki Peterson of the seminal pop-rock band The Bangles (Everett ...

The Bangles are back! Susanna Hoffs, along with sisters Vicki and Debbi Peterson, are reinvading the music industry with their first studio album in eight years, Sweetheart of the Sun. We’re so ...

When Susanna Hoffs centers her debut novel The Bird Has Flown around a thirty-something musician trying to find her way after being a one-hit wonder a decade earlier, you can’t help but look for ...