This is a story of how music has developed through time as a human art form. It expresses our deepest human feelings and gives us a...
Say what you will about this tourist trap of a monstropolis that we collectively call San Diego: over the landscape of the last five decades there...
Dateline: Memphis,TN Missy Andersen clutches a massive cup of coffee and scans the entire hotel lobby. She’s understandably anxious; in just hours the Blues Foundation will...
POP “Music has been an enormous part of my life, especially because of my father. I thank him because he brought the music to me,” says...
Justice: [noun] conformity to truth, fact, or reason: correctness. All you need to write a country song is three chords and the truth. — Harlan Howard...
There are many ways to describe music, but even with a wide palette of descriptions, that wouldn’t do Gayle Skidmore’s songs justice. She is indeed a...
“You look familiar.” Jeff Pekarek is examining me with one of those, “I think we went to high school together,” expressions. Beatriz Basile, his wife, looks...
It’s a festive crowd at 98 bottles. Unusual for a Sunday, the place is packed. Every seat looks to be taken, and folks mill about the...
In the liner notes to the 1968 Mothers of Invention album, We’re Only in It for the Money, Frank Zappa instructs all and sundry that, before...
