It’s brutal out there, and that’s why, more than ever, we needed the consoling and prodding pleasures of popular music to help everything make sense in here. [Stage direction: taps chest, knowingly.] ...

This was a year of rebirth and return across the music industry, both locally and nationally. Nowhere was that more evident than in Music City’s jazz, blues and soul scenes. After months of pandemic ...

In Slate’s annual Music Club, Slate critic Carl Wilson emails about the year in music with fellow critics — featuring New York Times contributor Lindsay Zoladz, freelance writer Briana Younger, NPR ...

Dion DiMucci was a kid from Bronx when in the late ’50s the vocal group Dion and the Belmonts and songs such as “I Wonder Why” and “A Teenager In Love” made him a star of early rock ‘n’ roll. As a ...

Last week blues singer Shemekia Copeland netted her fourth Grammy nomination, earning a nod in the Best Contemporary Blues Album category, for her latest, "Uncivil War." It was a happy note to what ...

Award-winning guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Selwyn Birchwood discovered his passion for the blues young. He was 13 when ...

John Mayall, the famed “Godfather of British blues” and a pivotal musical catalyst for at least seven Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, was not yet 34 when he released his fifth album, “A Hard Road, ...