It takes a concerted effort to stay hopeful during these times. Live music is still your best entertainment value, when it ...

Rhett Miller may be the Old 97’s’ front man, but bassist-singer Murry Hammond is the band’s Western conscience.

The studio setup and the internal fraying of The Band led to a newly ad hoc record-making process, where only a couple of ...

Craig Finn’s "Always Been" is a tour de force of narrative songwriting, a set of interlocking stories that’s the most impressive of the Hold Steady frontman’s six solo albums and one of the best to be ...

What if Bruce Springsteen had followed up his synth-and-drum-machine-driven 1994 hit "Streets of Philadelphia" with a whole ...

And the proof of that fascination lies in the first studio recording the band has released since 2023’s Hackneyed Diamond s: their rendition of the late zydeco master Clifton Chenier ‘s “Zydeco Sont ...

Joel Savoy doesn’t remember exactly when he first heard the music of Clifton Chenier, the King of Zydeco—the electrified and ...

The soundtracks of the '80s were packed with big, bombastic rock songs, but they also made room for less mainstream detours — ...

Of course, there are notable albums that aren’t hits at the time but come to be considered classics or to be influential. These notable albums will be turning 50 in 2025.

Singer-songwriter John Foster may not have won Season 23 of American Idol, but he did make history of a sort when his original single, “Tell That Angel I Love Her,” shot to No. 1 on the ...