When a single artist comes to represent an entire genre in the eyes of the wider world, you know you’re talking about a true icon and innovator. In bl...
Ke$ha , by all indications, seems to care about many things -- glitter, for one, or perhaps alcohol by volume -- but decidedly absent from her list i...
Kris Kristofferson's Feeling Mortal, his first album of new material in four years will be released via iTunes on Jan. 22 and will arrive in stores on...
Nicki Minaj is going to give "American Idol" a ratings boost that producers could've never imagined when they initially recruited her. Just as her fe...
Happy Thanksgiving! While you're savoring the day with friends and family and a big ole' feast, we're celebrating with a crew of our favorite artists ...
Buck Owens' 1963 recording of "Act Naturally" is among the latest inductees in the Grammy Hall of Fame. In an announcement Wednesday (Nov. 21), the Re...
Fort Lean was a long time in the making. “We all met in school, at Wesleyan,” frontman Keenan Mitchell explains, discussing the musically fertile Co...
If there’s such a thing as a modern Americana classic, Old Crow Medicine Show ’s “Wagon Wheel” is it. I remember when these guys were playing Station...
Music is ubiquitous and confusing. Twice a month, Eric Spitznagel stares into the bottomless chasm of new (and old) songs, albums and musicians that p...
With Election Day less than 24 hours away, Hollywood's hottest are making one final push to encourage young voters to head to the polls. Among them is...
Twice a year, the not-so-disparate worlds of music and wine are paired together during the weekend-long Live In The Vineyard event, held in the incr...
Devon Glover studied a bit of Shakespeare in high school. He'd read a few plays. He'd seen "West Side Story" and "Ten Things I Hate About You" and "T...
Ever since the length of a 10-inch phonograph record playing at 78 RPM set the standard, people have assumed that the default length of a song is, yo...
Festival Season 2012 is nearing its end. When we look back at the various fests we’ve experienced during the spring and summer, we’ve thought a lot ab...
Rayland Baxter has followed a winding path all his life, and now it’s led him to record a remarkably intricate country album, Feathers & Fishhooks ....
Bob Dylan is 71 years old. Think about that fact while considering some others, like the 3 to 5 years he usually takes between his releases, and tha...
