Thirty-five years ago there were record stores everywhere. Beyond the availability at many department stores and general merchandise chains, stores specializing in selling record albums (those big round vinyl disks […]

Blake Sebring. Blake Sebring? If that name sounds familiar, it should. If you have ever seen the Sports section of The News-Sentinel, seen the local news or heard any local […]

Tucked up in a $3 padded chair scavenged from a recent GE auction, I leaned close to a tiny space heater, hoping that my chilled red nose would go unnoticed […]

The debut record from Bricktown’s Replacements- and Guided by Voices-inspired new rock band, The Final Hurrahs, is a number of things. First, the 17 tracks here (12 full-blown songs and […]

Plaxton & the Void inhabit a space in the musical spectrum where vulnerable, earnest vocals float along rusty, acoustic strums and distant echoes of noise. It’s gentle, but not twee. […]

The appropriately named J Taylors – husband and wife Jonathan and Janelle Taylor – are a husband-and-wife vocal duo who perform a variety of popular songs at various venues and […]

Forged from the ashes of destruction, Fort Wayne-based prog-rock upstarts Thematic have been making waves this year as the openers for national acts like My Darkest Days and Sevendust while […]

Tucked away southwest of Warsaw, just a few miles off of U.S. 30, sits a potter’s sanctuary. Not just any potter’s sanctuary, but one owned, worked, dirtied and loved by […]