Music

For more than 25 years, Bon Jovi has been cranking out hit albums and playing arenas and stadiums, while establishing a level of enduring popularity that only a handful of acts have ever achieved...

It was that kind of afternoon, so we caution Jon Gray, trumpeter/vocalist for the local jazz septet Supercollider, that we were going to start our interview in the middle...

There was probably mud on their boots when they were marched out to the Katyn Forest that day in 1940...

Each week, Carmen Sandim voluntarily forgoes sleep for two nights. Not back to back, of course, because that would be crazy. Still, two nights...

Very few banjo players possess enough talent to influence a music scene so powerfully as the late Leftover Salmon banjoist Mark Vann. But when Vann lost his battle with melanoma in 2002 at age 39, some of his fellow bandmates came up with an idea to memorialize their...

Public Enemy’s Chuck D once told The Gaslamp Killer he looked like Jim Croce. Maybe it was the long hair and bushy mustache he was rocking at the time, but either way, he had no idea what Croce looked like, so he had to look him up. Sure enough, they had a slight ...

They conduct themselves like madmen, and explain their behavior by saying that in their thoughts they soar in the most far-off worlds ... Every...

Drifting through our back pages prior to a chat with Luna’s Dean Wareham last week, we were mildly astonished to see that our last...

Chalk it up to good luck or the benevolent hand of Providence, the SoCal duo El Ten Eleven landed safely in Philadelphia (see what...

These days, the word “troubadour” has become virtually synonymous with “singer.” Yet if you take a look back to medieval days when the word emerged, you’ll see that the original meaning was much less inclusive. In order to be classified as a troubadour, one couldn’t ...

Sean Lennon didn’t expect that when his band, The Ghost Of A Sabertooth Tiger, got the opportunity to open a tour in summer 2015...

People often describe Arooj Aftab’s music as mystical or meditative, both terms the singer, composer and producer resists. She finds it all a bit...