The Cars possessed a knack for opening their albums with attention-grabbing songs. These four classics make that abundantly ...

It’s been nearly 40 years since the Cars played their first area show at the Cleveland Agora. The show was broadcast live by WMMS-FM and has circulated in bootleg form for decades since then. Fans ...

Ric Ocasek, who died Sunday at 75, bridged the gap between pop and punk on a perfect album, the self-titled 1978 album by his band the Cars. (Ocasek died from hypertensive and atherosclerotic ...

"We used to joke that the first album should be called The Cars' Greatest Hits," guitarist Elliot Easton has often said, including in the liner notes for Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology in 1995 ...

Harmonix and MTV Games announced today their second complete album addition to the Rock Band downloadable content catalog: The Cars’ 1978 self-titled debut, which will be available Tuesday, May 27.

There were rock ‘n’ roll bands that soared out of Boston — Aerosmith, the J. Geils Band and the band Boston itself — but in the punk/new wave era of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, that band was The ...