Article Category: Local Musicians

When I joined local power groove metal act Gradeight for a recent jam session, frontman Sam Meyer was quick to offer me earplugs. “Believe me,”...

Rewind to New Year’s Day 2007. While most people were busy sleeping it off or nursing hangovers, the three guys behind Still Groove were holding...

For Jan Krist, the singer/songwriter hosting the March 30 songwriters workshop at Come2Go Ministries, songwriting workshops, writing groups of all sorts,...

Just when you think you’ve seen it all in local music you find BootLeg. In theory they’re a hodgepodge, motley crew of various genres. In...

Just in the last 10 years alone, the music business has changed dramatically. Where bands used to form in the hopes of getting a major label deal and...

This past summer’s whatzup Battle of the Bands came packed with many surprises, perhaps none more surprising than the ascendance of heavy metal quintet,...

Bill Lupkin’s musical career has ebbed and flowed, hitting incredible peaks before quietly subsiding while life’s other joys and challenges...

It’s hard for anyone paying even a modicum of attention to the Fort Wayne music scene for the past few years not to have heard of Jon Ross. A man known...

In much of the local scene I’ve met groups who had a shelf life of a couple weeks, a couple months and some maybe pushing half a year. That makes Southern...

Scott Snyder is a quiet, soft-spoken young man with a deep voice. He’s polite, well versed in a number of topics and experiences and an all-around nice...