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Returning to your hometown after you’ve become famous outside of it isn’t all ticker tape parades and keys to the city. Just ask Michael Palascak. Palascak spent his adolescence in […]

Saxophonist Boney James, born James Oppenheim, got his nickname on a tour of Scandinavia in the 1980s. The sums that James and his bandmates were being paid to perform didn’t […]

If you want to know what Melissa Etheridge is all about, find a video of Etheridge and Joss Stone performing songs made famous by Janis Joplin at the 2005 Grammy […]

There is a tradition at Bruce Hornsby concerts of fans writing requests on little slips on paper and throwing them onstage. This sound likes a great deal for the fans, […]

Theresa Caputo knew she was different from a young age. No, this isn’t about her love of big hair. It’s about her ability to talk to the dead, although her […]

Kool & the Gang got their start in New Jersey as a jazz band called the Jazziacs. They performed with jazz greats such as saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders and pianist McCoy […]

Chris Kilmore, the longtime DJ and turntablist for the band Incubus, is something of a delightful enigma with charming incongruity. You can catch Incubus performing on Sept. 6 at the […]

Let’s face it: If you’re a woman who plays blues guitar, some blues aficionados are going to be about as welcoming to you as the dinosaurs were to that meteor. […]

There were a lot of Sammy Hagar T-shirts in the lobby of Wabash’s Eagles Theatre on a particular Friday night in mid-August, as one might expect. There were also some […]