New Orleans bluesman Guitar Lightnin' Lee has died; he fronted a band that included punk musicians decades younger than him ...

What happens when you write a hit for another band, but you want it back? We find out as we trace the complicated history and intriguing theory behind an iconic Prince classic ...

Two songs into Khruangbin’s intimate set at San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom, Khruangbin guitarist Mark Speer took to the ...

Known for his work with Was Not Was, Bonnie Raitt, Ringo Starr and others, Jacobs delivers a funk masterclass that gives you ...

Two albums by the jazz organist Jimmy Smith are set to receive a reissue courtesy of Verve Records’ Acoustic Sounds Vinyl ...

Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.

Brazenly raw emotion and headbanging psychedelia overflow in the dynamic sound of Exceptional Failures. The PDX two-piece, ...

It will be a big weekend of blues at Mangrove Mountain Hall and recreation reserve on Friday and Saturday, November 28-29. On ...

Ma Rainey, born Gertrude Pridgett to a touring minstrel family, shaped blues in the early 20th century blending her ...

Rhode Island's jazz scene is mostly centered in Providence, but most nights of the week, there is a live jazz gig.

The Nov. 28 show will feature a concert and conversation with vocalist Annie Haslam and songwriter-drummer Jim McCarty, a ...

Tracy Lee Nelson, A member of the Luiseno on his father’s side, and the Kumeyaay/Digueno on his mother’s, is an award-winning blues musician performing at the Valley Arts Festival on Nov. 8, a ...