The very first concert I can remember going to as a kid was George Clinton at City Stages. I couldn’t have been more than seven years old and by the time I was nine I had seen Stevie Wonder, Bela Fleck and the Fleckstones, and Topper Price multiple times.

“Hearts Are Wild is a record that seduces the listener with uncommon passion . . . blues and roots singer, guitarist and songwriter Debbie Bond embodies her music with pure authenticity . . . ”.

After the Thanksgiving adventure of having Aunt Maggie hook up her RV in your back yard, you may want to get away for a little while. Nothing helps one’s mental health better than music or shopping, I always say.

Birmingham’s jazzman and resident musicologist, Ona Watson waxes eloquent on singing with “Cornbread, ”his grandmother, and on being a trailblazer for justice.

Not too long ago, Java Lewis’ studio was the street. When he first returned to Birmingham from Detroit several years ago, he set up at the corner of 1st Ave N and 20th Street, painting and selling street scenes, and sleeping nearby wherever he could find a hideaway from passersby.

The weight of history hangs heavy in Muscle Shoals. Not many towns as tiny as this Northern Alabama burg have such a strong connection with celebrity past, and the result is that Muscle Shoals’ national identity has been almost completely consumed by events that occurred there many decades ago. I refer, of course, to the legendary music that was created in the Shoals in the 1960s by Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton, Wilson Pickett, The Allman Brothers, Otis Redding, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Etta James and countless others at FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio.

Birmingham native Celeste Griffin is returning for a hectic three-concerts-in-three-days sojourn in Alabama on her way from Austin to New York to promote her band Monarch’s third release, The Rise and Fall, including a date this Saturday at Bottletree.

Let's face it - pop music's biggest names go through phases and get sucked in by the sounds of the times. Even The Rolling Stones, Kiss and The Grateful Dead all dipped their toes into Disco a-la &q

When MTV was launched in 1981, it became quickly apparent that we would never hear, or view, songs the same way again. Introducing us to upcoming artists while shining a new light on established ones,

In the age of iTunes and Youtube, artists have the ability to record a song today and release it tomorrow. This notion apparently hasn't caught the fascination of Gillian Welch. Opting to remain pati