J. Geils Band’s Peter Wolf tracks ... the singer of hits such as “Give It To Me,” “Love Stinks,” “Centerfold ... on a new solo album — his ninth overall and first ...

A framed gold record of the J. Geils Band’s 1980 album, “Love Stinks,” hangs in the back room of McSorley’s Old Ale House, on East Seventh Street. It’s there because Peter Wolf, then the ...

Over nearly 20 years beginning in the late 1960s, the J. Geils Band brought Wolf’s lifelong love of deep-cut soul music to hard-partying rock ‘n’ roll crowds.

"I wanted to buy a guitar, I wanted to learn how to play a guitar and that J. Geils Band 'Love Stinks' title track did it for me." The Love Stinks album peaked at No. 18 in the U.S., while the ...

Peter Wolf hasn’t released any new music since his 2016 solo album, A Cure for Loneliness, but the founding J. Geils Band frontman will be publishing a new memoir come 2025.

The J. Geils Band’s 1981 classic is both naughty and innocent, desirous and delicate. It is a complex listen born from the age-old theme of innocent crush-turned-unrequited love.

John Warren Geils, Jr., known professionally as J. Geils and lead guitarist and founder of The J. Geils Band, was found dead in his home on Tuesday in Groton, Mass., the Groton Police Department ...

It ain’t nothing but a party when Avon-based The J. Geils Band tribute act House Party is performing. That’s exactly what band founder and lead singer Kelly Goodwin discovered after having an ...

Sept. 19: The J. Geils Band’s first album, released in 1970, was a triumph of musicianship, chutzpah, and an unerring ear for great but relatively obscure rhythm-and-blues tunes. Mixed in with ...

The J. Geils Band's “Love Stinks” barely cracked the Top 40 in 1980, but it was the catalyst for the group’s subsequent success and a template for its 1981 platinum album Freeze-Frame.

John Warren Geils Jr. was the guitarist who lent his name to the J. Geils Band, which in the early 1980s produced a string of catchy pop hits, including “Love Stinks,” “Freeze-Frame” and ...

The death this week of J. Geils Band co-founder and guitarist ... as nothing more than an above-par Animal House-style party band following the disappointing chart stall of 1980’s “Love Stinks ... It ...