Sometimes fame in the most unexpected of places can sneak up on you. Just ask Jason Stollsteimer, the singer-songwriter-guitarist of Michigan-based alternative rock band The Von Bondies. Sometimes ...

While the SPIN/MySpace Saloon was being erected on Austin’s 6th Street, a few bands were kind enough to join us at our hotel suite for some Q&A and the occasional acoustic performance. Check out a ...

Which brings us to the Von Bondies' blustery sound as it relates to previous generations of gritty, hard-rocking Detroit and Ann Arbor bands. "I don't get it when people compare us to the Stooges or ...

12:30 p.m.: Okey-doke. The Von Bondies are playing with garage godfather Billy Childish (in his incarnation as The Buff Medways), and the gig is right down the street. Of course, the show is going to ...

Back in 2004 you might have heard a song called “C’mon C’mon” by The Von Bondies and a so-called “garage rock” movement before that. Their 2004 album, called Pawn Shoppe Heart, was released to ...

There are pros and cons to getting your ass kicked by a rock star: Jack White’s thrashing of Von Bondies singer Jason Stollsteimer in a Detroit nightclub in December–and the resulting photos of the ...

Five years ago, The Von Bondies made a big mainstream push with Pawn Shoppe Heart, a booming record that abandoned the dark, fuzzy garage-rock of the band's debut album, Lack Of Communication, in ...

The first blip of light at the end of the nu-tunnel was the new garage movement. Sure, maybe the labels went a smidge overboard. Did we really need twenty Strokes-clones? Probably not, but I guess you ...

The Von Bondies are to return with a new full-length album and tour. The Detroit rockers will release their third LP Love, Hate And Then There’s You in May, their first since 2004’s Pawn Shoppe ...

The Von Bondies Troubadour show Monday night should have been a slam-dunk, unalloyed triumph -- a sold-out, much anticipated appearance supporting the Detroit quartet's major label debut, "Pawn Shoppe ...

THINGS ARE LOOKING UP for the Von Bondies . The group's latest release, "Love Hate and Then There's You" (its first in five years), shows no obvious signs of ill will or despair; instead, the album is ...