Faithful to the film’s spirit and powered by an earworm-heavy soundtrack, the production leans hard into nostalgia while ...

Growing up on a farm 10 miles east of Springfield, Speedy West first became acquainted with the steel guitar at a young age ...

And to close it all out, these are the best new dance projects of the week. Fred again.. concluded 2025 with a lot of new ...

We already knew that, but the 2025 live music season reinforced why our state attracts the industry’s biggest stars to our stunning venues, large-scale festivals and intimate settings to give us ...

It was the summer of 1992, and Ladybug Mecca, Butterfly, and Doodlebug—collectively known as Digable Planets—were recording their debut album, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), commuting ...

Ivan Neville was in high school when The Wild Tchoupitoulas recorded its seminal 1976 album at Sea-Saint Studios. He can’t remember if he had visited the studio during those sessions — maybe he had ...

Since 2022, Fred Again.. has been in the middle of releasing USB, a continually evolving album that periodically gets new songs. The project is about to enter a busy stretch, as today (September 25), ...

*For more than two decades – and counting – trombonist and recording extraordinaire Jeff “Mr. Trombone” Bradshaw has been boldly mixing musical sounds and styles rooted in soul, R&B, jazz, hip-hop, ...

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If Mobile’s annual Gulf Coast Ethnic and Heritage Jazz Festival was just one night of poetry and three nights of music, it’d be a good time. But by the time the public entertainment starts on Thursday ...

Today in 1995, Foo Fighters released their self-titled debut album. The record was recorded in six days at a studio in Seattle, where former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, who had written all the songs, ...

Trombonist Fred Wesley might as well have copyrighted the term “horny horn.” He and bass superhero Bootsy Collins not only share a superhuman ability to evoke sweaty, funky palpitations—they’re also ...