CLEVELAND, Ohio -- He was a rock 'n' roll troublemaker. A punk. Always provocative, often confrontational. But there was a very different side to Stiv Bators. Offstage, the Dead Boys singer was ...

Former Dead Boys frontman Jake Hout, who left the band at the weekend, has hit out at his former employers, claiming that artificial intelligence has been used to generate new vocals in the style of ...

Justin Savage keeps hitting home runs with his Sunday Slashers film series. He is bringing the Stiv Bators documentary "Stiv: No Compromise, No Regrets" to The Palace on Patten Parkway at 7 p.m.

On Monday, Cleveland punk stalwarts Dead Boys announced their first new album in over 24 years, but then former lead singer Jake Hout suddenly announced his departure from the band. Why? Hout claims ...

Cheetah Chrome‘s current version of Dead Boys will release a new album (name TBA) in 2025 via Celopatra Records, featuring Blondie‘s Clem Burke on drums and Sex Pistols‘ Glen Matlock on bass, as well ...

Veteran New York punk rocker Stiv Bators met his end on June 3, 1990 when he struck by a taxi while crossing the street in Paris. Bators, best known for his stint playing with Dead Boys, was ...

In 1976, Dave Treat lived in Lakewood on Giel Ave. His neighbor was Stiv Bators, singer in the punk band Frankenstein (that would become the Dead Boys). At that time, Treat was studying photography at ...

The singer of punk band Dead Boys has quit the group, claiming their label wants to use an AI version of their late frontman Stiv Bators. READ MORE: In the age of AI Oasis, there’s no point being ...

Cleveland, Ohio - A rock ‘n’ roll badass. A punk provocateur. That crazy guy who would roll around on stage, pretend to hang himself with his microphone chord and sing about sordid sex, serial killers ...

Stiv Bators' cameo in John Waters' 1981 comedy 'Polyester' is so natural, it's easy to forget that his day job was fronting the Cleveland-bred punk band the Dead Boys. In the movie, Bators stars as Bo ...

On June 3, 1990, Stiv Bators -- a 40-year-old veteran of the downtown New York City punk scene best known for his time with CBGB favorites Dead Boys -- was struck by a taxi while crossing a street in ...