With that, the show was on, and Flemons cut a striking figure in his suspenders and flat pork pie hat. Behind him hung a ...

This year, two arena-filling artists returned to the older civic function of song. Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” and U2’s elegiac “American Obituary,” written in response to immigration ...

New Orleans band Sally Baby's Silver Dollars started 2026 with a trip to NPR in Washington, D.C., to record a Tiny Desk concert. After starting out with weekly shows at BJ's Lounge and a word-of-mouth ...

It may be my favorite live music town, believe it or not,” Foley says via Zoom. “We go a lot of places, but man, we love Houston. Love Houston!” Foley’s upcoming local engagement will be a treat for ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. Several years after author Lizzy Goodman wrote Meet Me in the Bathroom, an or ...

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The violin, mandolin, guitar, banjo, trumpet, baritone horn, xylophone and trombone — Peter Bocage could play anything. But it was the trumpet that placed him among jazz legends.

The Rolling Stones are rightly revered for their unstoppable rock ‘n’ roll sound. Exploding on to the rocking rhythm and blues scene in London in the early 1960s, the band arrived complete with a ...

Eighty-eight years ago today, one of the most influential multi-instrumentalists in American roots music was born.

Country Joe McDonald, whose late '60s group Country Joe and the Fish performed counterculture anthems at Woodstock, has died ...

I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to tell winter to move along and get out of here already.

There’s no single artist who has been more responsible for initiating the brand that is now referred to as Americana than Chris Hillman.