Carvin Jones, the beloved rock and blues guitarist known as the "King of Strings," has died after a battle with cancer. He ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

The Strokes took home the Grammy award for best rock album for The New Abnormal on Sunday, beating out the likes of Grace Potter and Sturgill Simpson and marking the influential garage rock band’s ...

Some fun concerts are heading this fall to SWFL, from rock, country and blues stars to rockabilly and Jimmy Buffett music fests.

The fusion subgenre known as blues rock came together in the early 1960s in the US and UK. It didn’t really kick off in a massive way until the late 1960s and early 1970s, during which some of the ...

Saturday’s event promises to showcase the extraordinary talents of award-winning musicians Johnny Rawls and the Jennifer Lyn & The Groove Revival band Johnny Rawls, a soul blues singer, guitarist, ...

The blues has been a purveyor of rock and pop music since its inception. Born in the late 1940s, but established as a new genre in the 1950s, rock music owes its birth to the blues. There’s no secure ...

Local music lovers will travel hundreds of miles to enjoy a multiday festival, but do they know about one in their own backyard? Since 2011, the Kern River Rock N Blues Fest has made Kernville the ...

The late 19th and early 20th century work songs and spirituals of the Mississippi Delta have traveled far. They came from Freddie Spruell, Charley Patton, Eddie “Son” House, Chester Burnett (Howlin’ ...

Our writers, our readers and all of the fans you see at the concerts you go to all have at least one thing in common — we're all fans of rock music. "Rock" is short for rock 'n' roll, which was a ...