9 March 2010, 8:19 am
The Grammy Award-winning vocalist, producer and composer Steve Tyrell will appear with his band for one night only at the Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m.... Read More »
8 March 2010, 6:53 am
After a five-year lapse between albums, Uncle Kracker [ tickets ] is "ecstatic" to promote in his latest collection, "Happy Hour." He begins his jaunt in support of the CD on March 11 in his home state of Michigan. "It's just good to be out again and doing stuff," said Uncle Kracker, born Matt Shafe... Read More »
8 March 2010, 1:20 am
New Haven Records in partnership with the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will release the CD Sunday in the Country: 12 Inspiring Hits From Today's Top Country Artists this month.... Read More »
7 March 2010, 11:32 pm
Linda Ronstadt: Chapter 11.... Read More »
6 March 2010, 10:06 pm
UW-Madison students Quincy Harrison and Cliff Grefe were profiled in USA Today last December for a song they wrote in the basement of their Langdon Street fraternity house. Harrison, 20, and Grefe, 19, didn't get national press for breaking musical ground. They'd barely begun performing together as ... Read More »
6 March 2010, 2:15 pm
Ron Banks, 58, whose silky falsetto helped give the Dramatics one of the most enduring careers in R&B, died Thursday at his home in Detroit after apparently suffering a heart attack, said Billy Wilson, president of the Motown Alumni Assn. Banks was one of the founding members of the Detroit vocal gr... Read More »
6 March 2010, 2:04 am
Here is a look back at the top Day in Rock stories from this past week.... Read More »
5 March 2010, 1:26 pm
Thanks to "American Idol," "Real, raw musical talent is slowly dying," writes a Billboard reader. Share your opinions in our weekly mailbag.... Read More »
5 March 2010, 10:19 am
John Hiatt has been pursuing his Roots Rock direction for so long now it's sometimes difficult to remember that he started off in a Folk/Pop vein in the early '70s, which morphed into a tough/tender New Wave angle later in the decade and into the '80s. But like any decent gunslinger, Hiatt never for... Read More »
4 March 2010, 5:18 pm
Sporting white shirts and skinny black ties, and performing the power pop anthem "My Sharona" on every television show going in the pre-MTV era, The Knack looked and sounded like a throwback to the Beatles at the time of the British invasion and briefly became the acceptable, ubiquitous face of the ... Read More »