Since at least the time when an angsty adolescent Hamlet was hanging out in cemeteries talking to skulls, teens have been into death. In the late ’80s, I dyed my hair black and listened to…

SAN FRANCISCO — Bauhaus introduced what we now refer to as goth music. Its dark wave sound was glam, punk and dance. Bauhaus members Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins followed that band with Tones on Tail, a short-lived side project with Bauhaus…

SANTA CRUZ — Looking back, it’s often easy to spot the turning points in our lives, the doors we stepped through that changed the course of our journey. At 15, I was living in a small,…