Rashod Ollison is many things. The award-winning journalist is black; he’s a music critic; he’s gay. In his new memoir, Ollison recounts his childhood experiences marked by pain, poverty, dysfunction ...

Soul Serenade is the fourth commercial release for Allman Brothers guitarist Derek Trucks. A second generation band member (the guitarist is the nephew of drummer Butch Trucks), Mr. Trucks studied ...

Music has always been a part of Rashod Ollison's life. His new memoir, Soul Serenade, is a story both of songs and hardships. His father left the family when he was only 6. He writes that his mother, ...

Gene Ludwig is four square in the traditional school of Hammond B3 organ players and with more than 40 years at the console, he helped to form the tradition. His playing is relaxed, laid back, ...

It’s difficult to fathom that 1967’s I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You, perhaps Franklin’s crowning artistic achievement, was actually her 11th studio album, and even more difficult to fathom ...

Rashod Ollison has loved music for all his life. As a young boy growing up in Little Rock, Ark., music provided him with solace from his hard scrapple life. Motivated by that love, alongside his ...

Retro-rocker John Spencer swaps the blues for rockabilly in his Heavy Trash side-project, whose third album is a tone poem to the old-fashioned thrills of buzzsaw guitars, twangy tremolo effects and ...

Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray continue to reinterpret the early days of rock'n'roll, emphasizing the rawness and raunchiness of it all. Save this story Save this story It's a Beatles world, which ...

Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite could never have known, when her astounding new ballet Angels’ Atlas premiered on Feb. 29, 2020, that the world was about to be shuttered by a global pandemic.