Just seconds after I set my mug on the table of a north side coffeehouse, Action Jaxson drummer Wil Brown began what would amount to taking me to school on […]

For years Jim Steele has been an in-demand jazz and session keyboard player in the Fort Wayne area, even snagging the Best Keyboard Player Whammy in 2001. But until the […]

After hearing Lou Cucinelli’s voice on my answering machine, suggesting I meet his band at Mad Anthony Brewing Co. on a Sunday afternoon, I more or less assumed he might […]

The scene at Deer Park Irish Pub, on the last Saturday in August, was like a birthday party. In fact, it was a birthday party, a 40th birthday party for […]

Blues harp master Bill Lupkin’s credentials are spelled out on the inner sleeve of his new release, Where I Come From. A jaw-dropping montage of scrapbook photos shows Lupkin backing […]

Collared once with the label “man of the cloth” for his intricate fabric collages, fifty-few-year-old local galleryist Joel Fremion remains today an enthusiastic and dedicated proselytizer for homegrown talent. “It […]

If you think that all Christians wear dour faces then you’’ve never met Nod Arvefel (also known to certain Angolian’s as Donald Lefevra). I’’ve never met Nod, but after hearing […]

The world of Dilate’s modern brand of metal is all black chrome and gunmetal gray, a place where iron-forged roaring fury is only occasionally offset by what passes for peace […]