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The last few years have been busy for Fort Wayne guitarist and composer Phil Schurger. And the way things are going, the next few are unlikely to offer any respite. […]

Getting out of Fort Wayne can be tough. Especially when you’re from Ligonier. But against the odds, or perhaps because of them, Jeff Rains and his band Rains has managed […]

It’s been four and a half years since James Ellsworth & the Dynasorrows released Heart on Sleeve, a collection of songs tracing Ellsworth’s breakup with his former girlfriend. As breakup […]

Every once in a while a band comes along and throws new light on old classic rock tunes. Juke Joint Jive are that band. With a setlist of songs by […]

By the time Matt Kelley was awarded the Special Whammy Award in 2010, he was already very familiar to readers of whatzup and the Fort Wayne community at large. As […]

For Jan Krist, the singer/songwriter hosting the March 30 songwriters workshop at Come2Go Ministries, songwriting workshops, writing groups of all sorts, are essential and familiar territory.  Over the past two […]

A few years ago, Nick Hornby – who wrote the novels High Fidelity and About a Boy and a small library of other things – submitted to McSweeney’s Internet Tendency […]

The casual observer would be hard-pressed to determine the specific demographic targeted by the band Brother, especially if that informant were limited in criteria to hairstyles present at Martin’s in […]

There is a line dividing fans of country music. On one side stands the pop-country enthusiast, fans of so-called – hat acts – churned out by the Nashville money people […]