Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin with the Guilty Ones are at Off Broadway with a show on Oct. 15. Show time is at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25-$35, available through ticketfly.com. Get more information at ...

Alvin, 55, who comes to Off Broadway on Thursday with his band the Guilty Ones, came by his empathy for ordinary working people while growing up in Downey, Calif., with big brother Phil, lead singer ...

Battling brothers are nothing new in rock & roll. They are part of a proud tradition of dysfunction in some great bands, ranging from Ray and Dave Davies' long-running feuds that split The Kinks to ...

There’s nothing like a near-death experience to bring estranged family members back together, according to Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin, the notoriously bickering brothers from Downey. The siblings in ...

Dave Alvin, performing at Levitt Pavilion in Dayton on Friday June 30, has built a rich musical resume over the past 40-plus years. He came roaring out of Downey, Calif. in the late 1970s with the ...

As Dave Alvin tells the story, it all started the day his older brother Phil brought home a Big Bill Broonzy record. As kids, the brothers who would go on to form The Blasters, drawing together roots ...