WHEN two savvy Southerners hooked up with two West Midlands wild men, it was a case of light the blue touch paper and stand well back. As legend has it, they were supposed to go down like “a lead ...

Alabama Shakes made a surprise comeback when they played their first show since 2017 in Tuscaloosa. Now, they’re teasing new ...

One of the South Shore’s best-known local groups performs in their hometown tonight, but under the guise of a slightly ...

The music world and its fans saw plenty of heartbreak and tragedy in January with at least 20 notable musicians having lost ...

Questlove's newest documentary features interviews and clips from 50 years of musical performances on Saturday Night Live.

“I just like to sing my soul,” Willie Mae Thornton, better known as Big Mama Thornton, is heard to say in a new documentary ...

as Imani Perry illuminates in a new book that swirls and flicks like an actual marble, a color inextricable from the Black race. Most clearly in the blues, the genre of music that evolved from ...

Joshua Josué is an up-and-coming Latin rock artist who has quickly gained recognition for his distinctive blend of Mexican ...

Born Michael John Robillard in Woonsocket in 1948, he founded Roomful Of Blues with pianist Al Copley in Westerly in 1967. (Dylan was also apparently a fan of that band.) The Rhode Island-based band ...

Eric Clapton’s fifth solo album Slowhand debuts on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart at No. 2, nearly netting the guitarist ...

Garth Hudson, the organist and multi-instrumentalist whose wizardry enhanced some of the best-known songs of 1960s and 1970s rock group the Band, including "Up on Cripple Creek," "Chest Fever" and ...