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Local Musicians
Meat Flowers
Fort Wayne band The Meat Flowers is not your typical rock band, so it is not surprising that their history, album goals, and target audience are delightfully quirky and definitely not typical.
Though not many may be familiar with the band, lead singe...
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Joey O Band
6 p.m. Saturday, August 10
Ever since he was a young boy, Joey Ortega knew all he wanted to do was be in a band. Now, years lat...
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Out & About
Out and About
A few of our local acts are set to perform at the Sweetwater Pavilion on July 28 for StoneyFest to b...
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Brian Lemert
One reason Fort Wayne’s music community is so strong is that there is very little attrition. Thank...
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Brian McKnight 4
From his Broadway debut in Chicago to stints as radio and television host, musical powerhouse Brian ...
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Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
8 p.m. Friday, July 19
Hall of Famer to bring Blackhearts to the Foellinger.
At the recent induction ceremony of the Rock &...
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Night Ranger
7 p.m. Friday, July 19
Sweetwater Pavilion to host Night Ranger.
Night Ranger are quickly closing in on their 40th annivers...
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Out & About
Out and About
With the Three Rivers Festival just around the corner (July 12-20), get ready for an array of live m...
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Marcus King Band
7 p.m. Sunday, July 21
Rising star in the guitar world brings his band to the Pavilion.
You could say that making music is ...
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Clutch
The Clyde lets out the Clutch on July 16.
It seems hard to believe when Clutch guitarist Tim Sult re...
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C+C Music Company Feat. Freedom Williams
7 p.m. Saturday, July 20
Back to the '90s night at TRF also features Young M.C. and Rob Base
Rapper Freedom Williams doesn’...
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Alice Cooper
On the phone, Alice Cooper comes across like the cliché about the kid in the candy store.
If you d...
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Eli Young Band
For fans of country music, the well-known and much beloved Eli Young Band will be performing at the ...
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Out & About
Out and About
On Tuesday, July 16, singer-songwriter Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express will roll through town to...
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Lloyd Cole
Revisit hits from Lloyd Cole’s brief period as a British pop star in the mid- and late 1980s and y...
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CD Reviews
Brian Lemert
Considering that the songs on Brian Lemert’s East of Where You’ve Been are full of nostalgia, re...
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Static-X
Static-X are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their debut album, Wisconsin Death Trip, this summe...
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Twiceyoung
Bands come together in a variety of ways with some reflecting years of friendship and musical experi...
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Collective Soul
Since the release of their album Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid — the album that gave th...
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Out & About
Out and About
You will not have any issues finding the Alicia Pyle Quartet this summer thanks to the recently anno...
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Local Musicians
Whatzup Staff Report
The mission of Whatzup is to connect everyone in Fort Wayne and beyond with great events, from music...
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CD Reviews
Dan Smyth
Singer/songwriter Dan Smyth is a music machine. Not only does he lend his guitar and vocal skills to...
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Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
Béla Fleck recalls being laughed at when he first tried to play the banjo in public.
This wasn’t ...
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Out & About
Out and about
Bird & Cleaver at 1603 N. Wells St., known for its relaxing ambiance and comfort food classics, has ...
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Trombone shorty and Orleans Avenue
Growing up in New Orleans and not becoming a musical person is a little like growing up on an island...
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Los Lonely Boys
Growing up with a father who was a musician, joining the band came naturally for brothers Henry, Joj...
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CD Reviews
James Ellsworth with Clusterfolk
James Ellsworth’s new album is an eclectic confection, an ambitious project that combines traditio...
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David Allan Coe
Sifting through David Allan Coe’s biography, it’s not easy to sort out what’s true and what is...
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Billy Currington
Even before his professional music career really took off, Billy Currington was always one to make t...
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Melissa Etheridge
With the release of her self-titled debut album in 1988, Melissa Etheridge immediately presented the...
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International Jugglers Association Festival
Gathering each year for their annual convention and festival, which features workshops, performances...
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Out and About
Pioneer funk and soul star Bootsy Collins will be coming to the Sweetwater Performance Pavilion to f...
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A Quarter Century of Blues
When he first began his professional career almost three decades ago, Kenny Wayne Shepherd was at an...
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Controvert
“Loud like a locomotive but smooth like water.”
This is how Marion-based metalcore band Controve...
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Out & About
Out and About
The local psychedelic groove band The Be Colony is set to release their very first full-length album...
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Hotel California
The Eagles are one of the most successful bands of all time. The group was founded in 1971 by Glenn ...
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Exterminate All Rational Thought
Exterminate All Rational Thought have been honing their musical skills for years now in the Fort.
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Hozier
In a recent announcement, Grammy-nominated artist Hozier has confirmed additional performances in No...
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Criss Angel
In performance, Criss Angel is slightly more Saruman than Gandolf, more Count Dooku than Obi Wan. Hi...
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Out & About
Out and About
The Clyde just added a couple more worthy shows to their ever-growing lineup.
First up, the America...
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Tesla
Making waves for more than 35 years, Tesla continue to grind, keeping current fans happy and impress...
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Paul McCartney
When the Memorial Coliseum announced Paul McCartney’s Fort Wayne concert date last September, the ...
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CD Reviews
Kyle Haller Band
Kyle Haller Band make music steeped in the tradition of artists like Bob Dylan, The Band, the Gratef...
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Out & About
Out and About
Like many bands out of the ’70s and ’80s, Foghat still forges on to this day with a steady road ...
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Nita Strauss
As a member of Alice Cooper’s band since 2014, Nita Strauss has solidified herself as a bonafide g...
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Local Musicians
Louisiana Lot Lizards
“Nightmares. Not enough sleep. Ghosts. Really loud amps. Guitar pedals. Graveyards. Our loved ones...
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Out & About
Out and About
Whoa, Man! is one of the latest acts to hit our scene and has a mission to celebrate the women of ro...
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CD Reviews
Heaven's Gateway Drugs
The Fort Wayne psychedelic collective known as Heaven’s Gateway Drugs have been honing their mix o...
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Roseanne Barr
When I spoke with Roseanne Barr from her home in Hawaii, she was about to embark on a short stand-up...
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Jared James Nichols
In a recent tweet, Eddie Trunk called him “one of the best emerging young rock talents out there....
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Marcus Scott
He’s just 34 years old, but his voice and style evoke an era of music born before his time.
For t...
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Out & About
Out and About
One of the most respected singer-songwriters of all time, Brian Wilson, will be making his way to th...
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CD Reviews
Exterminate All Rational Thought
Fort Wayne’s Exterminate All Rational Thought have been been turning frontal lobes to mush since 2...
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CD Reviews
Lovewar
Lovewar released their debut album Soak Your Brain in 1993. But before it could create waves, public...
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Local Musicians
Heaven's Gateway Drugs
It’s been almost three years since Heaven’s Gateway Drugs’ last album, 2016’s Rubber Nun. Th...
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Granger Smith
Granger Smith’s rise up the country music charts led to an unsurprising crossover success given th...
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Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox
In 2009, Scott Bradlee was a jazz pianist working in New York City and thinking that being a pianist...
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Hatebreed
It can’t be easy to be, simultaneously, one of the most understood and misunderstood bands on the ...
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Fort Wayne Music Festival
Now in its fourth year, the Fort Wayne Music Festival is unofficially the kickoff of the summer fest...
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Kansas
Although Kansas had faced some personnel changes over the years, save a brief departure in the early...
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Out & About
Out and About
Last year, the Marcus King Band strolled through the Summit City and put on a show-stopping performa...
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CD Reviews
Metavari
Nate Utesch continues to evolve and move the sound of Metavari into new territory.
Starting back in...
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Dennis DeYoung
In recent years, many of the top bands of the 1980s have had to forge a path without the recognizabl...
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Local Musicians
Dormant
When a band describes their songs as “no two songs sound the same,” you almost have to roll your...
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Classic Deep Purple with Glenn Hughes
He’s played bass and sang on more than 70 albums.
He’s a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, though he ...
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Buckethead
The man, the mask, the bucket?
For fans of killer guitar solos, robot dance moves, and KFC, the Clyd...
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Old Dominion
It might be an understatement to say that the past three years have been a whirlwind for members of ...
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Out & About
Out and About
Earlier this month, rock artist Melissa Etheridge released a new album, The Medicine Show, which wil...
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Alan Jackson
Alan Jackson has had no problem settling into the role of country music’s mentor-in-chief. Nearly ...
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Local Musicians
Monthly Muso Night
Paul Kobylensky admits that he had himself in mind when he got the idea for Monthly Muso Nights at T...
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MercyMe
MercyMe’s crossover appeal seemed to happen suddenly, with their iconic hit "I Can Only Imagine" s...
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Tim Hawkins
Tim Hawkins decided to pursue comedy as a vocation out of desperation.
“I tried everything else,...
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The League's Blues Bash
When Julie Collins lost her eyesight nearly 27 years ago due to diabetes, she began searching for wa...
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Out & About
Out and About
The Clyde Theatre will send women into a swoon on the evening of Saturday, August 24, when actor Kev...
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Buckcherry
A few years back, Buckcherry experienced an upheaval that saw two veteran players depart the band. A...
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Brian Posehn
Brian Posehn is a nerd. He’s a book nerd. He’s a Phantom Menace-hating Star Wars Nerd. He’s a ...
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Out & About
Out & About
Local singer-songwriter James Ellsworth (formerly of Clusterfolk), is set to release his third album...
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Local Musicians
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Spend any time at all with Caleb Young and it’s obvious that he loves music and loves sharing it w...
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Scotty McCreery
When you win American Idol at the age of 17, you’ve got plenty of time to evolve and still be at t...
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Zakir Hussain
The name Zakir Hussain does not stir instant recognition in many Americans. But in his native India,...
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Out & About
Out and About
Just when you thought the Sweetwater Performance Pavilion had a full concert calendar, they slide in...
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The Kyle Haller Band
Already well-known to fans of Phil’s Family Lizard and Grateful Groove, Kyle Haller has enjoyed su...
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Local Musicians
FM
Before moving to Fort Wayne a couple years ago, Joe Savino was living in Las Vegas and had found suc...
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Thunderstruck
The music of AC/DC has spanned decades and generations of fans. But even though the band has not off...
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Out & About
Out and About
The Sweetwater Performance Pavilion concert lineup continues to grow with the recent announcement of...
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Sandi Patty's Salute to America
In a career that has spanned more than four decades, Sandi Patty has become the voice of Christian m...
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Anna Faye
Songwriter, singer, and guitarist Anna Faye Caldwell with her drummer and producer Mark Everetts hav...
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Jimmy Lee Young
Singer-songwriter Jimmy Lee Young grew up in New Orleans, the so-called “birthplace of jazz” and...
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Winterjam
With their appearance at the Winter Jam in the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, the Irish Christi...
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Out & About
Out and About
With the ice rink now closed for the season, Headwaters Park focuses its attention on its summer fes...
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Out & About
Out and About
The Allman Betts Band have found themselves aboard the Sweetwater Performance Pavilion’s ever-grow...
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Whitey Morgan
Whitey Morgan might say something about his music “evolving” on his latest album, Hard Times and...
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Anita Renfroe
On Thursday, March 14, you may end up with a new friend. Her name is Anita Renfroe and she’ll be d...
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Local Musicians
Fort Wayne Philharmonic
For those old enough to remember, the events of September 11, 2001, are forever etched in our minds,...
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Eliminator
Do a search for “ZZ Top tribute bands” and you will find a number of groups with different degre...
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Out & About
Out and About
Guitar slinger Kenny Wayne Shepherd is set to return to the Summit City on Friday, June 14, for a pe...
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Shinedown
Shinedown stays on top yet flies under the radar.
Shinedown might just be the biggest rock n’ rol...
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Bach Collegium
If you’re looking for a one-of-a-kind music experience, look no further than the performances of t...
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Adam Baker & The Heartache
With diverse influences like Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Tweedy, and the late, great Tom Petty, it’s n...
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Casting Crowns
As winter comes to a close, three Christian music groups are making their way to Fort Wayne to lift ...
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Out & About
Out and About
It’s time for us to break open our piggy banks. I highly suggest you consider the show the Sweetwa...
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Los Lobos
The year was 1982. Steve Berlin was saxophonist for the storied rockabilly revival band, The Blaster...
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Leslie Odom Jr.
Leslie Odom Jr. is not an overnight success.
For many years, he was featured on a variety of televi...
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Whatzup Pick
Fort Wayne resident Damon Mitchell will release his debut EP Elise on March 2. To celebrate, the sin...
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Out & About
Out and About
The Sweetwater Performance Pavilion is adding the power ballad perennials of hair metal and hard roc...
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Blues Brothers Review
Whether from the legendary 1980 film or subsequent reboots, the Blues Brothers of “Joliet” Jake ...
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Kevin Hambrick
Fort Wayne musician Kevin Hambrick has been making scrappy pop records for the better part of the 21...
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Umphrey's McGee
Before social media interaction defined what fan service means, the members of Umphrey’s McGee gav...
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Out & About
The local surf rock quartet Strange Waters are set to release their new self-titled EP on Saturday, ...
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Out & About
The Sweetwater Performance Pavilion is at it again with the announcement of the modern country act t...
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John Mellencamp
Indiana has produced a number of famous musicians: Michael Jackson, Crystal Gayle, Axl Rose, and Joh...
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Candlebox
Take a minute to consider the state of rock music in 1993.
Nirvana was a year into its reign as the...
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Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime
In the ’90s, Sublime were the background music to every party. You couldn’t go anywhere without ...
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Davy Knowles
How many of us know the exact moment that our entire life and career was decided?
Davy Knowles reme...
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Out & About
Out & About
More big news from the Sweetwater Performance Pavilion! The biggest name the outdoor performance ven...
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Pop Evil
What’s in a name? In the case of Michigan-born Pop Evil, the band’s name contains an extremely e...
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Old Crown Brass Band
Downbeat is 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, for a free concert by one of Northeast Indiana’s premiere perf...
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Out & About
Good news! The Sweetwater Pavilion’s first announcement for their summer concert series is Béla F...
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James and the Drifters
Like many bands, the lineup for James and the Drifters is much different than it was when first form...
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Jefferson Starship
Few rock bands have been as willing to dramatically evolve over the course of decades, while at the ...
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Out & About
Out & About
The local surf rock quartet Strange Waters are set to release their new self-titled EP on Saturday, ...
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CD Reviews
Kevin Hambrick
My good friend and fellow music writer D.M. Jones once said of Kevin Hambrick, “Psychedelic rocker...
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Jake Shimabukuro
It was Jake Shimabukuro who proved that the ukulele could be played in virtuoso fashion.
Before Jake...
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Russell Dickerson
Rising country-pop star Russell Dickerson is, if nothing else, adaptable. When it’s come to buildi...
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Local Musicians
Motor Folkers
Do you ever come to the weekend and feel like going out to hear some live but familiar music? Someth...
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Local Musicians
Purdue Fort Wayne School of Music
It’s been a time of tremendous change and growth for the newly minted Purdue University School of ...
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Out & About
Out & About
Down the Line 13 returns to the beautiful Embassy Theatre on Saturday, Feb. 23, at 7 p.m. It’s the...
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Anthony Gomes
Fort Wayne is one of the best places to play in the U.S. And that’s according to Anthony Gomes, a ...
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Out & About
Out & About
The generation that grew up in the ’90s is now officially old enough to get out and make a living....
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CD Reviews
My Soul's Revolution
My Soul’s Revolution are a hard band to pin down. A bit of some ’90s alternative, pop hooks, and...
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Rayland Baxter
When Rayland Baxter dropped out of college after a knee injury ended his athletic career, his father...
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Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
In October 2017, Bob Seger was forced to postpone a number of live dates on his Runaway Train tour b...
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Voices of Unity
Anyone who has seen the Voices of Unity choir performances know that there’s something very specia...
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Kim Richey
Singer-songwriter Kim Richey took a circuitous route to a musical career. In truth, the peripatetic ...
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Spicoli Culkin
Releasing music since the ’80s, Chris Goldbach has seen and done it all.
Goldbach used to live in...
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Out & About
Out & About
The School of Rock is kicking off the new year with a show that will satisfy all the tasteful music ...
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Ann Wilson
Watch videos of Heart performing live in the 1970s and try to appreciate how improbable the band was...
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Whatzup Pick
Sammie Benson, a.k.a. Blac Youngsta, is a rapper in the truest sense of the word. The 27-year-old fr...
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Out & About
Out & About
An actor from one of the highest-grossing movies of 1980 is coming to town in a few days. To be hone...
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Sing! An Irish Christmas
A concert that features banjos, violins, drums, harps, and Celtic dancers is bound to be entertainin...
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A C2G Christmas
From the sacred to the secular, there may not be any music which inspires everyone to sing along the...
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The Drifters, Cornell Gunter's Coasters & Platters Holiday Show
Since the Drifters formed in 1953, there have been many incarnations of the band, some of them exist...
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Out & About
Out and About
Has 2018 been a good year for you? Perhaps it was a year filled with positive vibes or, then again, ...
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Local Musicians
Strange Waters
Growing up in the Midwest tended to put a damper on dreams of being a surfer. One way we Midwesterne...
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Messiah By Candlelight
It might surprise casual fans to learn that Handel’s Messiah was never intended to be a celebratio...
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Cece Winans
A few years back, Alvin Love III came to his mother, gospel legend CeCe Winans, with an idea for a n...
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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
The year is 1996, and there’s a dance craze sweeping the nation. All the cool kids want to swing. ...
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Heartland Sings
Whether it’s walking through a Winter Wonderland or ringing Jingle Bells, it’s easy to celebrate...
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Out & About
Out and About
Don’t look now, but we’re officially in the month of December. Where did the year go? Now in the...
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Local Musicians
Curtain Call
Mary Zimmerman’s The Secret in the Wings marks the second annual Underclassmen Showcase at Purdue ...
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Holiday Pops
The Fort Wayne Philharmonic’s Holiday Pops performances are among the most popular offerings this ...
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Atreyu
Born from the metalcore movement of the 1990s, Atreyu is group of six musicians who value the origin...
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Out & About
Out & About
Hometown rocker Angela Lese, who now resides in Nashville, is coming north on Friday, Dec. 7, to per...
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Hot Tuna
Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen have been performing at the heart of American music for more than hal...
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Michael McDonald
The phrase Yacht Rock encompasses certain soft rock, jazz-rock and blue-eyed soul hits of the 1970s ...
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whatzup Pick
Alicia Pyle has been making music for over two decades and is known throughout the region as a treme...
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Straight No Chaser
What do you get when you bring together nine guys who each have a pitch-perfect voice, an abundance ...
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Here Come the Mummies
There are two ways to interview Here Come the Mummies.
One way involves challenging their subterfuge...
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whatzup Pick
Even if you don’t know if you’ve heard them or not, we can just about guarantee you have. When i...
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whatzup Pick
The holidays are a beloved time for most people, and for good reason. Oh, we know there are some Ebe...
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Out & About
Out & About
It’s been 25 years since the local Christian rock outfit Lovewar flew out to L.A. to record an alb...
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National Acts
Halestorm
Where guitarists for heavy metal bands are concerned, Halestorm’s Joe Hottinger is atypical.
Most ...
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Tech N9ne
Veteran rapper Tech N9ne might not be planning to keep on performing and touring for a lot longer, b...
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Craig Ferguson
When former CBS talk show host Craig Ferguson visits the Honeywell Center in Wabash on November 25, ...
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Out & About
Out and About
For the past six years, the Ragin’ Cajun food truck has done an outstanding job serving up mouth-w...
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Dweezil Zappa
For a dozen years now, Dweezil Zappa has been recreating his father Frank’s music in concert.
When...
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A Big Apple Jazz Club
When Fort Wayne native Trinell Armour takes the stage this weekend at Wunderkammer, it will be in a ...
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Impractical Jokers
They have a knack for embarrassing each other, an “anything goes” attitude, and a penchant for o...
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Out & About
Out & About
It’s not uncommon to see unfamiliar numbers come across your phone. Most of the time it’s some s...
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Brothers Osborne
Country music stars love to cast themselves as rebels, but if we’re honest, we know that most of t...
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Big Gigantic
There is no way watching a guy with a laptop on a stage could be exciting, right? Well, at least one...
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Ricky Skaggs
Ricky Skaggs knows how blessed he is, even when facing a musical injury.
He won’t be able to play ...
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Out and About
The B-Side at One Lucky Guitar continues to book some impressive shows at their downtown design and ...
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CD Reviews
Local Spin
Leones’ latest recording is a slight departure from their regular output. Holy, the band’s 2016 ...
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Joe Bonamassa
It’s not often you get to witness a living legend, even before he is actually considered a living ...
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Gov't Mule
In the 1970s, the Allman Brothers were on the forefront of the Southern Rock movement in the U.S. Tw...
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David Sanborn Electric Band
Saxophonist David Sanborn is sometimes described as one of the most successful crossover artists in ...
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CD Reviews
Local spin
Local live juggernauts Sad Gravity finally release their debut recording in the form of a self-title...
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Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul
Bruce Springsteen has spent the last year or so sticking close to his New Jersey home, entertaining ...
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Machine Head
Machine Head is dead. Long live Machine Head.
When Machine Head was first booked to play The Clyde T...
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Fort Wayne Philharmonic
If you’re into dramatic comeback stories, you won’t want to miss “The Rach 2,” Fort Wayne Ph...
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CD Reviews
Local Spin
If you’ve been hanging around Fort Wayne over the past twenty years or so, chances are you know th...
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Jack Russell's Great White
“Hair metal” fans rejoice! The very first SiriusXM Hair Nation Tour takes place this fall with a...
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Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Roger Lewis, longtime baritone saxophonist with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, said his first “horns...
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Christiana Danielle
Christiana Hicks became known for putting her own soulful spin on songs by well-known artists like D...
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LeAnn Rimes
Since the release of her first album, Blue, in 1996, LeAnn Rimes has been a tabloid magnet.
Asked wh...
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Chris Robinson Brotherhood
Chris Robinson became somewhat of a household name as the frontman for the Black Crowes, but the mus...
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Blood, Sweat & Tears
When someone hears that Blood, Sweat & Tears are performing nearby — as they are at the Clyde Thea...
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Dark Star Orchestra
When it formed in 1997, Dark Star Orchestra set itself a Herculean task that few cover bands have ev...
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Charlie Daniels Band
It’s a good bet that Charlie Daniels doesn’t get asked about time travel very often, so I was ha...
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Steely Dan
When Steely Dan performs at the Embassy Theatre on October 4, it will be without the band’s cofoun...
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Buddy Guy
You should know why it’s important to see blues guitarist Buddy Guy perform at the Clyde Theatre w...
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Renée Fleming
Renée Fleming is a musical treasure. That was perhaps most evident when the nation watched her powe...
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whatzup Pick
Pop punk will never die, and Welsh band Neck Deep are out to prove it. Despite the decline in popula...
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Greensky Bluegrass
According to Greensky Bluegrass banjoist Mike Bont, “When you pick to be a musician, you are picki...
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REO Speedwagon
When REO Speedwagon take the Foellinger stage next week, they bring decades of beloved hits to share...
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Local Musicians
whatzup Pick
Electro-pop and electro-funk duos are all the rage these days.
Nationally and internationally, we ha...
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Rick Braun and Peter White
When Rick Braun and Peter White take the stage at the Sweetwater Pavilion next weekend, Fort Wayne a...
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Modest Mouse
In recent years, the Foellinger has grown more ambitious in its summer programming: booking ever lar...
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Jim Gaffigan
In 2017, Jim Gaffigan’s wife, Jeannie, underwent surgery to remove a benign brain tumor and Gaffig...
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Marty Stuart and Lee Ann Womack
There’s no musical genre in which tradition plays a bigger role than country music, and the latest...
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Anderson East
At present, R&B singer Anderson East may be more well known for his personal life than for his music...
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Dokken
Being a 13-year-old guitar player in 1986 meant that a good portion of my free time was spent plowin...
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Local Musicians
F---ing Panthers
With a name like F---ing Panthers (blame them for the censorship), you can mostly guess what you’r...
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whatzup Pick
“They’re living it up at the Hotel California.” No, it’s not Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Wal...
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whatzup Pick
Fort Wayne tends not to be among Bruce Springsteen’s stops when he’s touring across the United S...
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Alice Cooper
When you head to see Alice Cooper at the Foellinger on September 1, by all means go to hear the nume...
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Flatfoot 56
It’s a unique band name with a unique sound.
Flatfoot 56 is coming to Fort Wayne as part of this ...
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CD Reviews
Slug Love
Right off the bat, the new album by Fort Wayne garage punk band Slug Love is hard-hitting and chunky...
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Local Musicians
Jordan Plohr
Jordan Plohr wouldn’t exactly describe himself as a “born performer,” but he has been one for ...
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The Guess Who
The title of The Guess Who’s new album, set to drop next month, says it all: The Future Is What It...
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Blackberry Smoke
Part Lynyrd Skynryd and part The Black Crowes, with a nod to ZZ Top and Waylon Jennings, Blackberry ...
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Out & About
Out and About
Two-EE’s Winery in Huntington has become the go-to destination for delicious wine, socializing wit...
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whatzup Pick
There are bands that are good in the studio and there are bands that you have to see live. Night Ran...
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whatzup Pick
Country singer-songwriter Cole Swindell began his career as many Nashville hopefuls do – by writin...
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CD Reviews
Standards of Living
When you grow up in a small town but catch glimpses of what could be from your bedroom window, what ...
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Indika
When the members of Indika get together, it’s a true melting pot of talent.
The band leader and ba...
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Average White Band
Blue-eyed soul – the music genre of rhythm and blues with a dose of funk – has been popularized ...
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Local Musicians
elle/the Remnant
Hicksville, Ohio, seems an unlikely place for a pair of musicians to have formed a bond, or for that...
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Local Musicians
Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound
When Paul Cebar first started making music more than three decades ago, he took his cues from dance ...
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The Flaming Lips
In 2016, Fort Wayne crossed a threshold from “almost cool” to “indisputably cool” when it wa...
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Local Musicians
Fort Wayne Area Community Band
How many of us took up a musical instrument in school, invested hours of time in practice, and set i...
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CD Reviews
elle/the Remnant
When local band elle/the Remnant released Skies I’ve Learned How to Love in January 2018, it must ...
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Gangstagrass
If you’ve watched an episode of the Fox drama, Justified, then you’ve heard the unique mash-up o...
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Jonny Lang
Jon Gordon Langseth Jr., alias Jonny Lang, was discovered in the late 1990s as part of a wave of blu...
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Local Musicians
Streetlamps for Spotlights
Fort Wayne has plenty of guys and gals that work behind the scenes to help make the community the th...
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Marshall Tucker Band
Southern rock’s family tree can be traced to the late 1960s and early ’70s with three principal,...
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Herman's Hermits
Of all the UK-based bands that invaded the U.S. in the mid-1960s – think the Kinks, the Animals, a...
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Kansas
With the exception of a four-year break in the early 1980s, the voice of Kansas — not to mention t...
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Local Musicians
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Fundraisers have become a common occurrence with many organizations hosting special events to bring ...
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Jay Leno
Jay Leno said he hasn’t touched a dime of his Tonight Show earnings.
That’s a lot of dimes.
Le...
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Black Label Society
A phrase repeats several times in the FAQ section of the Black Label Society website. The phrase is ...
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Blues Traveler
Blues Traveler have gone through three distinct phases since the band formed in Princeton, New Jerse...
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Ted Nugent
Political activist. NRA proponent. Hunter. Business entrepreneur. Former reality TV show star. Whate...
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America
No one would deny that the Beatles are at the top of producer George Martin’s legacy. But there w...
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Sad Gravity
With just a year under their belts, local poppy-garage band Sad Gravity have established themselves...
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George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic
In April, George Clinton, aka "the Prime Minister of Funk" and "Dr. Funkenstein," announced that he...
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Grand Funk Railroad
One of America's most beloved classic rock bands is about to turn 50, but hey, AARP, hold the membe...
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Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo
For the love of all that is holy, when will Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo be inducted into the Rock ...
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Local Musicians
Gin Blossoms
It was 1992. Grunge was king, having dethroned hair metal as America's favorite type of rock with a...
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Gin Blossoms
It was 1992. Grunge was king, having dethroned hair metal as America's favorite type of rock with a...
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Arrival from Sweden
The story goes something like this: one night in 1995, Victoria Norback went to see an ABBA tribute...
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Jen Fisher & The Foggy Creek Band
During her many years with the popular Fort Wayne band Sugar Shot, Jen Fisher had nursed a seed of ...
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The Wailers
As the son of Aston "Family Man" Barrett, Wailers multi-instrumentalist Aston Barrett Jr. is part o...
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Willie Nelson
The title of Willie Nelson's newest album - his 12th in 10 years - says a lot even if it doesn't sa...
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Willie Nelson
The title of Willie Nelson's newest album - his 12th in 10 years - says a lot even if it doesn't sa...
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Agen Family Trio
Growing up in a small village in Wisconsin, Kristine Agen had no idea that there could be such a th...
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Al Di Meola
Like Mozart, New Jersey-born guitarist Al Di Meola has sometimes been criticized for playing too ma...
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Little River Band
On recordings, on the radio and on stage, Little River Band are known for feel-good hits like "Remi...
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Fitz & The Tantrums
We live in strange times.
Many once-ubiquitous pop acts that had their heydays prior to the year ...
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Asleep at the Wheel
If you want a robust career in the entertainment business, it helps to be in the right place at the...
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CD Reviews
Third Frame
Grown, the sixth studio album from hip-hop duo Third Frame, is a wild mix of styles, beats and word...
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Guitar Army
Guitar Army are the supergroup's supergroup. The guitarists that form the band's core - John Jorgen...
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Local Musicians
Guitar Army
Guitar Army are the supergroup's supergroup. The guitarists that form the band's core - John Jorgen...
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CD Reviews
Local Spin
Grown, the sixth studio album from hip-hop duo Third Frame, is a wild mix of styles, beats and word...
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War
Depending on your age, you first heard the music of War:
(a) Sampled on tracks by The Beastie Boys...
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Tedeschi Trucks Band
Last year was a difficult one for guitarist and songwriter Derek Trucks. Not only did he lose his u...
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Ghost
The message from the clergy has been received and their orders have been executed. There is new blo...
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Local Musicians
Eye-C
Going by the monikers That Guy and DJ Fathouse, local space pop act EyE-C create a hip-hop act that...
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Web Exclusive
The thing that brought Utopia back together ultimately wasn't a burying of hatchets.
It was a surfe...
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Out & About
Out and About
I don’t know too many folks that wouldn’t love to be able to play guitar. After all, it’s prob...
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Anthrax
"Playing a show has always been Christmas and birthday and Halloween and everything all wrapped up i...
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CD Reviews
The Sweetwater All Stars
I don't know the cumulative years of studio experience among the lineup of the Sweetwater All Stars...
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Local Musicians
Christiana Danielle
When NBC's The Voice first aired in 2011, it seemed an obvious attempt to capitalize on the enormous...
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Local Musicians
Sweetwater Drum Circle
Every month, Sweetwater invites members of the community to come together to relieve stress and mak...
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CD Reviews
Girl Colors
There I was, trying to find someone on Craigslist willing to lower their standards enough to play mu...
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Local Musicians
FM90
In the last year or two, several cover bands have appeared with a focus on the music of the 1990s. ...
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Local Musicians
Marcus King Band
Marcus King is the first to admit he's an introvert. That label doesn't bother him at all. In fact,...
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Marcus King Band
Marcus King is the first to admit he's an introvert. That label doesn't bother him at all. In fact,...
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City on the Move
After Mayor Tom Henry and City Councilmen Glynn Hines and Tom Freistroffer proposed the creation of ...
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Local Musicians
Steve Martin & Martin Short
There are evenings you'll never forget and then there's the night when Steve Martin and Martin Shor...
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Stone Sour
Over two million albums sold, three Grammy nominations collected, a couple of chart-topping singles...
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Featured Musician
If you like what lead singer Pat Martin describes as "hardcore in your face" metal, you will love t...
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Featured Musician
Ska is dead.
"That's the buzz," says Justin Maloney, guitarist for Fort Wayne's leading ska out...
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CD Reviews
Local Spin
There I was, trying to find someone on Craigslist willing to lower their standards enough to play m...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
Some bands are born from a group of friends who are looking to play together in some configuration....
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Local Spin
I don’t know the cumulative years of studio experience among the lineup of the Sweetwater All Sta...
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Local Spin
Tear a page out of a 1985 yearbook, polish up your vocoder and get pumped with the electro-funk of ...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
Fort Wayne has had its share of punk bands come, go and remain. Flamingo Nosebleed, for instance, a...
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CD Reviews
Local Spin
It’s often said that musicians spend their whole lives working on their debut albums. As a result...
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Featured Musician
Although Star 69 are a relatively new band, the five men who comprise the group are all veterans of...
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CD Reviews
Local Spin
As I’m typing this review, Jared Andrews is probably finishing up yet another musical project. He...
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Local Spin
March On, Comrade began as a completely different band called Ordinary Van. But when singer and mai...
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Featured Musician
It’s not unusual for a band to change its name. It happens a lot for a variety of reasons. A name...
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Featured Musician
A popular oldies band for three decades, Spike and the Bulldogs were a familiar attraction at local...
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CD Reviews
Local Spin
Members of Continue the Story, with a new talent on bass, have broken off and churned out a six-son...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
Fort Wayne is no stranger to punk or alternative bands rising from apparent nothingness. Something ...
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Colt Ford
There are more paths to country stardom than roads that lead to Rome. For singer-songwriter Colt Fo...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
“It started with a kiss,” sang Aerosmith, Hot Chocolate and The Killers in various songs. Som...
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CD Reviews
Local Spin
Three Cities take having a good time seriously. It shows in their live shows, their videos, and it ...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
When it comes to weddings and receptions, one almost universal requirement is music. There are a my...
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Victor Wooten Trio
When you ring up Victor Wooten expecting one thing, you may come away with another.
Wooten is wid...
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Black Violin
To hear the violin/viola duo Black Violin saw their way through a Bach Brandenburg Concerto is to h...
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Acrobats of China
Anyone who has been to the circus knows what it feels like to clench your fists and hold your breat...
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Local Musicians
Addison Agen
On October 2, Fort Wayne's Addison Agen wowed the world (and two judges) with her rendition of Ray ...
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CD Reviews
Local Spin
Everyone should have a chance to learn an instrument, right? But with school budget cuts often targ...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
Good old-fashioned rock ‘n roll is hard to come by in the local music scene sometimes. It’s usu...
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CD Reviews
Local Spin
Youth can afford a level of optimism that sometimes age and experience sadly don’t allow. There...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
When you first hear Belle & The Strange, you hear a lot coming at you. You hear the alt-country tin...
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CD Reviews
Local Spin
Fort Wayne’s Horizon Arcs seem to be tapping into the alternative 90s on their debut record, Anyb...
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CD Reviews
Local Spin
Omaha, Alaska dropped their debut self-titled LP a mere nine months ago. It was a pop-inflected, si...
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Local Musicians
Rain Kings
Many musicians will tell you that choosing a band name is hard. Among them would be Jerry Albright,...
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Gordon Lightfoot
Growing up in the 60s meant a lot of different things for different people. For me, with a father w...
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Barenaked Ladies
Unlike many bands, Barenaked Ladies actually relishes the moments in concert when things don't go e...
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Local Musicians
Ryan Kerr
Not often do you find yourself standing in front of someone who you can instantly feel would a be g...
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Brian Howe
British rocker Brian Howe always knew what he wanted to be.
"According to my parents, I was tellin...
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Local Musicians
Night to Remember
For Jon Durnell, music as a vocation came later than it does for some. Focusing on athletics as a k...
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The Music of TRF
While the music lineup has always been an important and highly anticipated feature of the Three Riv...
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Blue Oyster Cult
In what is arguably one of the top 10 skits in Saturday Night Live history, actor Christopher Walke...
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Tinsley Ellis
Tinsley Ellis' career as a bluesman started in a hotel lobby. A fan of British invasion acts like t...
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The Lettermen
When he was just a young boy, Tony Butala moved from his home in Sharon, Pennsylvania to California...
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Musicians of GearFest
Terry Bozzio, one of the world's premier rock drummers, first learned about the power of music from...
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Musicians of GearFest
It is not uncommon for famous musicians to try to dissuade their kids from getting into the family ...
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The Spinners
Although originally from Detroit, there are few groups which better define the Philly soul sound th...
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Local Musicians
Leones
Two years ago Ozzy Albor and Eric Bernal formed the Fort Wayne-based alternative band Leones. After...
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Joe Walsh
Most music aficionados who do not play an instrument know Joe Walsh by his nickname, "the clown pri...
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Chicago
Before dawn every day, Chicago trumpeter Phil Cohran woke his numerous sons and made them practice ...
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The Accidentals
Watching The Accidentals perform is like hitching a ride on a rocket. Savannah Buist and Kati...
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Alexander Wren
How's this for a challenge? We dare you - double, triple, and quadruple dog - to open up the "about...
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Local Musicians
A C2G Christmas
It is that time of year again, a time of giving and receiving, a time of year that brings with it a...
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Local Musicians
Celtic Women
Before Mairead Carlin was a member of Celtic Woman, she was one of the group's biggest fans. The yo...
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Tedeschi Trucks Band
If you want to quickly understand why Derek Trucks is widely considered to be one of the best blues...
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The Goo Goo Dolls
The Goo Goo Dolls have been celebrating three decades of existence in 2016 and more besides.
Lead...
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I Love the 90s Tour
The 1990s were a simpler time.
In those days, people had not yet given up their search for Carmen...
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Rusted Roots
Many know Rusted Root for their trippy joyful mid-90s anthem "Send Me on My Way" off their Platinum...
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Out & About
Out and About
If you've never attended a chili cook-off competition, you may not know that there are so many diff...
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Steve Vai
As one of the most skilled musicians to emerge from the 1980s - and having been named one of the to...
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Here Come The Mummies
These days it seems everyone and his undead brother is eager to talk about the upcoming zombie apoc...
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Johnny Mathis
It's been a year for celebrating milestones for Johnny Mathis. Shortly after turning 80 last fall, ...
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Gallagher
Gallagher has had a rough few years: professed insolvency, multiple heart attacks and bad press for...
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Get the Led Out
Maybe you're one of the lucky ones who can recall a certain fateful night in January 1970 when Robe...
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Ben Folds
Ben Folds has the appearance of someone you might find spilling off your couch the morning after a ...
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The Sweet Water Warblers
What began as a request from a friend and a mutual admiration society is now a bona fide supergroup....
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Such a Night
In 2012, Fort Wayne-native and longtime Indianapolis-based musician Bill Mallers sat backstage with...
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Local Musicians
Kathleen Madigan
The way Kathleen Madigan's stand-up career started sounds like a joke - "One young woman from Misso...
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George Thorogood
They're staples on rock radio. They're "B-b-b-bad." They're from Delaware. And they've been rocking...
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Wishbone Ash
Wishbone Ash founding guitarist Andy Powell feels a bit like a blues man most days. That's because ...
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Miranda Sings
In 2009, a YouTuber calling herself Miranda uploaded a video called "Free Voice Lesson."
In it, a ...
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Local Musicians
An Evening With Doc West
For 37 years, Rick "Doc" West has skillfully welcomed and introduced hundreds of rock bands to doze...
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Charlie Daniel's Band
Charlie Daniels first went on tour around 1971 and he may still be on the very same tour.
That's ...
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National Acts
Zion Lion
Regardless of what anyone says, summer isn't over until after Labor Day weekend. The kids may be lo...
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John Primer
Plugged in, raw and immediate, Chicago blues carries on a musical tradition that, arguably more tha...
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Chicago
It was a long time coming, but in April Chicago were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. El...
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National Acts
Gangstagrass
When you think of bluegrass music, "Brooklyn" and "rap" don't immediately spring to mind. But the m...
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National Acts
Happy Together Tour
When the Happy Together show hit the Foellinger Theatre last summer, it may have been the greatest ...
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America
When the British band America debuted stateside in 1972 with the hit single, "A Horse with No Name,...
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Staying Alive
It is not known how many tribute acts there are in the universe, but it is probably safe to say tha...
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Roots Rock Society
It's turning out to be a good summer for Stann Champion. On July 1, the Chicago-based musician took...
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Saliva
Sometimes when you're a chart-topping hard rock band, you have to be prepared for your frontman to ...
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The Stranger
It seemed like a simple suggestion at the time. Mike Santoro's wife suggested that, since he could ...
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Local Musicians
Big Caddy Daddy
They may not be full-time professional musicians by trade, but you can't tell that judging from the...
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Peter Frampton
In 1977, three pop stars vied for space on the covers of teen magazines like Tiger Beat and Teen ma...
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Paul Cebar
Paul Cebar is the kind of artist who's hard to pin down. Is his music R&B laced with blues and jazz...
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C.J. Chenier
Many followers of the New Orleans music scene will recognize CJ Chenier's surname immediately. That...
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Little River Band
Although the Little River Band are still considered an Australian group, understandable since the g...
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Rick Wilson
The artist Rick Wilson lives and works in Edinburgh, Indiana, a small town whose central location b...
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Sounds of Touch
The Miracles. The Supremes. The Marvelettes. The Four Tops. The Contours. The Jackson 5. Stevie Won...
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Jackyl
The hardest working band in rock 'n roll is coming to Brandt's Harley Davidson in Marion for a free...
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The Osmond Brothers
It's something that millions of people can easily and truthfully say. But only if you get to interv...
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Weird Al Yankovic
It all began with an accordion.
There aren't many tales of the rich and famous that begin that way...
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Travis Tritt
The details of Travis Tritt's love life read like something straight out of your favorite country ...
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Moonshine Bandits
Music that combines country and hip-hop calls to mind that old Reese's commercial where a guy walki...
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Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band
Popular local drummer and drumming instructor Todd Harrold said his young students care about exact...
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Brian Posehn
Brian Posehn - actor, stand-up comedian, writer, recovering Star Wars fan - is a funnyman who's mad...
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Styx
When one of the biggest rock bands in history comes to you and asks you to be its new lead vocalist...
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The Chronics have long been a powerful mainstay in the Fort Wayne original music scene - but change ...
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It's a cold Thursday night, about 9:00 p.m., when I pull up to Go
Dog Go drummer Mark Winters' ...
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No one seems to know how to spell "rhythm" these days. Certainly not
club and bar owners who ha...
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When Life & Times by IPFW professor John Minton came across my desk I immediately feared the upturne...
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The ambitions of the members of Renegade are simple. Ask any one of the guys in the band what he'd ...
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Ten seconds into the first track of pleased to meet you by
Definitely Gary you know there's someth...
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When it comes to choosing a name, some bands have it easy. That instantaneously catchy but meaningfu...
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If a competition were held in which local guitarists battled to the gruesome death in a bold display...
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Jerome Schooley figures the Beastie Boys aren't going to sue him
over the name he chose to call...
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The first song on Jettingham's first album is called "Good Life." The lyrics convey the frustration...
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Paul New Stewart might have gone to college on a baseball scholarship, but it’s been in music whe...
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It was only a couple of years ago, but it seems like a different era altogether. We're sitting at a ...
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One thing that had never occurred to me was to wonder if there
was such a thing as Christian Jam...
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The card he handed me said Troolie Dangerous Enterprizes, Nicholas M. Crickmore at your service....
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Whammies favorite David Todoran is set to release his third solo collection of songs, Luck In This L...
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What started in 1998 as an excuse to get out of the house and jam with friends soon became an excuse...
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If you’re lucky enough to be in the front row at a performance by the Mimi Burns Band, you might ...
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The idea came to her in the wee hours of the morning. At 6:30 a.m. one day, Jachell Tolbert awoke f...
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Brad Amstutz likes to think of himself as a real glutton for punishment. Or as, the lead guitarist...
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Don't ever let it be said that irony is without a sense of humor. In fact, when you really think ...
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“This is the new and many releases for a new wrestling company out of Fort Wayne.” So began the ...
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They’re a self-described biker band with a funny name, a name that’s known not just by the loca...
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Hold your noses ’cause the boys from Columbia City are back with yet another aromatic love offeri...
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You might be forgiven for thinking that the members of Black Jet Radio are out-of-towners. They una...
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Frank-O Johnson released his first album when he was just a wee lad of 14. He went on to become part...
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Kerry Rutherford has been everything from a shrimp cannery worker to an intuitive arts practitione...
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When the new Downbreed came into my hands to review my ears visually cringed. Oh no! I thought...
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Following her local debut album, When You Love Someone from earlier this year, Amy Lee Moser has onc...
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Although she only spent a few of her high school years in this humble burg, Fort Wayne proudly claim...
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Since Im a crusty, bitter hermit and dont get out much, when a local CD comes into my claw-lik...
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You just might be laboring under the misapprehension that rising star Fatima Washington doesn’t l...
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In a musical world awash with stylistic hybrids of every imaginable type, it’s only natural that m...
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Every now and then, just as I’m slipping into a chronic state of musical ennui, an album comes alo...
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Forget grunge, forget nu-metal, forget boy bands … this is nostalgic 80s hair metal like your moth...
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Many of the 12 musical experiences are ensemble pieces with the violin playing a prominent, but n...
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Like his last album, Birdstock 2001, Animal Totems by Arvel Bird is a theme album with each song rep...
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Why did Blame It On Rio start?
Well, you can sorta blame it on Green Day.
And Jon Katt's fa...
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Mention the name Ron Barber to jazz musicians around Fort Wayne, and you're likely to elicit a simi...
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A mysterious wah guitar and light drums introduces Cheap, the second release from local artist Kev...
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Although Angela Ueber currently lives in sunny California, this talented musician once fronted Rushv...
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"One of our fans put it best," explains Eric Jacko, Bloodborne drummer. "They consider us a local...
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This time around the band consists of Nic Roulette on vocals, Kenny Taylor on guitar, Jamie Simon...
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