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Keeping Bad Company

British rocker Brian Howe always knew what he wanted to be. “According to my parents, I was telling people I was going to be a singer from the age of […]

Ghost

Ghost may be a Swedish doom metal band, or it may be a Tobias Forge solo project. Time, and the courts, will tell. Ghost debuted in 2008. Four of its […]

Tornado Warning

Tornado Weather by Deborah E. Kennedy, Flatiron Books, 2017 Colliersville, Indiana is desperately in need of a renaissance. The small town at the heart of Deborah Kennedy’s debut novel has […]

Consummate Showmen

When he was just a young boy, Tony Butala moved from his home in Sharon, Pennsylvania to California, primarily to pursue a career in performing. Now, more than 60 years […]

Steeped in the Blues

Tinsley Ellis’ career as a bluesman started in a hotel lobby. A fan of British invasion acts like the Beatles, Cream, the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds, Ellis was told […]

More Than Cowbells

In what is arguably one of the top 10 skits in Saturday Night Live history, actor Christopher Walken plays a fictional music producer giving advice to a fictional version of […]

From Prince to Mummies

While the music lineup has always been an important and highly anticipated feature of the Three Rivers Festival, in the last several years it has also served as the official […]

The Stranger

The premise of Billy Joel’s 1977 hit, “The Stranger,” is that we all have a face we hide from the outside world, a face that we only allow ourselves to […]

Damien Juardo

Indie singer-songwriter Damien Jurado might come from Seattle, but he’s one of Fort Wayne’s favorite adopted sons, and he’ll be at the Brass Rail Saturday, June 24 at 8 p.m. […]

A Welcome Sushi Addition

Is there such a thing as too much sushi? If there is, I haven’t reached that threshold. I could eat it every day, I love it that much. So, it’s […]