Al Barile, co-founding guitarist of the influential Boston hardcore band SSD and a lifelong figurehead of the straight-edge ...

Al Barile, guitarist and creative force behind the early Boston hardcore band SSD, has passed away. As Pitchfork reports, Barile’s wife Nancy Barile writes that he died on Sunday. In 2022, Barile ...

A member of an influential rock band is dead at 69 ahead of the group’s farewell tour. Dave Allen, the bass guitarist for Gang of Four’s first two albums, died on Saturday at his home while surrounded ...

Barile's group was a linchpin of the drink-and-drug-shunning straight-edge scene of the early 1980s that also included Washington’s Minor Threat.