The history of blues music is drenched in melancholy. So it’s no surprise when some of the most gut-wrenching blues tunes ...

MARLBORO — Sonic Circus Music Festival started as an invite-only event when the Lyons family moved to Vermont. David Lyons, co-owner of Sonic Circus, wanted to take a more organized approach this year ...

Chris Wienk, afternoon host and program director at WEXT and vice president of radio at WMHT Public Media, and Bethlehem-born Josh Norek, president and co-founder of Regalias Digitales and co-host of ...

The blues is ripe with legends and myths, not least the oft-touted claim that W.C. Handy was the father of the blues. But as Darryl. W. Bullock tells it, there is an important tract of blues history ...

In The Alternative Number Ones, I'm reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...

Best Alternative Album isn’t just some catch-all category invented to include genre-defying works of exceptional music. It’s a distinct subgenre of rock music that emerged in the late 1970s, but ...