The alternative rock band from Madison County IL plays original music & is competing to earn one of two spots on the side ...

Home recording was part of songwriting from the very beginning for me,” Dowdy said when I reached him in early April. “It wasn’t about playing shows, it wasn’t about having a band, it was about ...

Local band Timeworm has been keeping a heavy foot on the music-making gas for quite some time. Now the band is on the cusp of releasing its debut album.

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The Swedish guitar great Yngwie Malmsteen took his love of classical music and translated it to a more hard rock and metal ...

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Trondheim, Norway has actually served as a base for several of black metal’s finest chieftains: Enevelde’s phenomenal Brage ...

“Audience With the Queen” boasts a big, full sound, with plenty of horns and gospel-style backing vocals from Galactic’s ...

These rock albums were electrifying when they dropped in 1985. This year, they'll turn 40 years old, reminding us all of our advancing age.

The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.