It’s funny how life works out sometimes. As a kid, I loved my music icons. As a teenager, I loved bands like Led Zeppelin, Boston, AC/DC, Earth, Wind & Fire, Rick James and Prince. I know, it’s an odd ...

Over the last 40 years, true renaissance man Danny Elfman has delivered it all through various incarnations. As performer, frontman, composer, conductor, and visualizer, he is the consummate ...

Danny Elfman‘s first solo album in nearly four decades, Big Mess, is out on June 11, and among the new songs is a reworked version of Oingo Boingo’s “Insects” (from their 1982 album Nothing to Fear).

Oingo Boingo, the musically complex octet that was the centerpiece of California ’80s new wave has been dead for 20 years. But Dead Man’s Party, an Oingo Boingo tribute band, has been a SoCal ...

LOS ANGELES — Oingo Boingo, the Southern California new wave band that rocked the 1980s with hits like “Weird Science” and “Dead Man’s Party,” was honored by the Los Angeles City Council today. Former ...

Composer and former Oingo Boingo leader Danny Elfman is on this week’s edition of Score: The Podcast for an in-depth, career-spanning conversation. Among the subjects: Coachella, at which Danny was ...

Most horror fans know Danny Elfman as the composer of choice for filmmaker Tim Burton–and too many others to name. But before working with orchestras scoring soundtracks, Elfman held major street cred ...

The band Oingo Boingo first began as a theater troupe called The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, a moniker inspired by the 1950s television series Amos ‘n’ Andy, in which there was a fictional ...

McKian in the front of the stage and Johnny Vatos behind the kit with Oingo Boingo Former Members. (Photo by Michelle Alvarez/Green-Eyed Blonde Photography) As the days grow shorter and nights get ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Oingo Boingo performed acoustic versions of two of the band's biggest hits at Wednesday's Los Angeles City Council meeting, where they were also honored with a resolution.