Rocking on his own terms
In October 2017, Bob Seger was forced to postpone a number of live dates on his Runaway Train tour because of a back injury.
Spinal surgery and soul...
Article Category: National Acts
No blockbuster, just great songs
Singer-songwriter Kim Richey took a circuitous route to a musical career. In truth, the peripatetic Richey has always being a big proponent of circuitous...
From the Heart of rock n’ roll
Watch videos of Heart performing live in the 1970s and try to appreciate how improbable the band was at that moment in rock history.
It was fronted...
Blac Youngsta
Sammie Benson, a.k.a. Blac Youngsta, is a rapper in the truest sense of the word. The 27-year-old from Memphis says that when he is recording new tunes...
Coming Together in Songs of Faith
A concert that features banjos, violins, drums, harps, and Celtic dancers is bound to be entertaining, and the musicians who fill the stage hope that...
Cool Christmas with These Crooners
Since the Drifters formed in 1953, there have been many incarnations of the band, some of them existing simultaneously, but not touring together. It...
The Power of Positive Music
A few years back, Alvin Love III came to his mother, gospel legend CeCe Winans, with an idea for a new album. Winans’ response was not detailed, but...
Have a Swingin’ Little Christmas
The year is 1996, and there’s a dance craze sweeping the nation. All the cool kids want to swing. As dance crazes go, this one is more immersive than...
Metalcore Rockers Invite You to Party
Born from the metalcore movement of the 1990s, Atreyu is group of six musicians who value the origins of their hard-rock ways and treat each other and...
A Half Century of American Music
Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen have been performing at the heart of American music for more than half a century, mining the country’s musical history,...