When power-pop girl group The Bangles reunited in 1999 after 10 years apart, guitarist Vicki Peterson says her condition for being a part of the group again was that it “would continue to make new ...

Although The Bangles started out as an indie pop band associated with Los Angeles’ Paisley Underground scene in the early 1980’s, it didn’t take the band long to make major commercial inroads. By the ...

Long before their chart domination, global popularity and, ultimately, their implosion, the Bangles began with an ad on a big board in the Sunset Boulevard shopfront of Musicians Contact Service.

As a trio in 1981, singer Susanna Hoffs and sisters Vicki Peterson (guitar) and Debbi Peterson (drums) called themselves the Colours. Shortly after the band renamed themselves the Bangs. The Bangs ...