Blues News

Movies that are able to effectively blend action and comedy tend to be real crowd pleasers.

All looked smooth from the outset: Thousands of music lovers grooving to such bands as The Black Keys and Cake while noshing on fine Napa food and sipping world class wine.

The Weekenders are a raw rock n' roll band hailing from Salt Lake City. Fans and critics compare the quartet's blues-rock hybrid sound to The Black Keys, The White Stripes, Led Zeppelin and more.

Booker T.'s "Father Son Blues" - which, yes, features his talented offspring Ted Jones - opens with a grease-popping organ lick before recapturing a groove familiar to anyone who ever soaked up a Stax Records side back in the day.

Marc Maron, the salt and pepper podcaster and personality behind the fledgling IFC comedy Maron , knows his way around a guitar.

Atlanta's Music Midtown returned in 2011 with an extremely successful single-day festival led by Coldplay and The Black Keys after a lengthy hiatus in the mid-2000s that left a huge hole in the Atlanta summer music calendar for several years.

Someone please remind the film makers of "A Good Day to Die Hard" that the Cold War is over.

Someone please remind the film makers of "A Good Day to Die Hard" that the Cold War is over.

Twin Falls, Idaho This is the 14th year in a row for the "Twin Falls Tonight" concert series.

The madness of the summer transfer window is well under way, but the excitement generated by new signings could soon turn to embarrassment... There's something of a void at Real Madrid - a void that is usually filled by a shiny new signing, but things are being held up at the Bernabeu, writes Tim Stannard... But this was no ordinary tumescent ... (more)

A Baytown, Texas woman driving with her two kids looked more like Bruce Willis in 'Die Hard' when she outfoxed a carjacker in a violent confrontation after he burst into the vehicle.

Appearing on the Blues main stage will be Sisters in Grease, a duo who have played at the pinical of the British blues stages.

This week we recognize Juneteenth, the annual holiday that celebrates the emancipation of slaves living in Texas almost three years after the end of the civil war, with a playlist recognizing notable black Texas artists .

Yeezus, the highly anticipated new album from Kanye West, leaked online Friday morning, resulting in immediate Twitter trending and sending less-ethical fans all over the world to various illegal download and mirror sites to get a free copy.

The second annual 2013 Bryan Blues Festival is now an important part of history in the Brazos Valley, and what a conclusion the overflow crowd experienced Saturday night with the astounding dynamic blues by Bryan native Donald Ray Johnson, who showed his powerful voice that truly soared across the night air and left nothing but good vibrations for ... (more)

James survived his misspent youth, and the story of his later years provides plenty more of the kind of misery that fueled his music.

This Thursday could be an important day for a long-neglected piece of Chicago blues history, reports WBBM's Kris Kridel.

In an exclusive excerpt from the new book Eric Clapton, Day by Day: The Early Years, 1963-1982 , Marc Roberty takes us into the earliest days of Derek and the Dominoes All of this takes place before the arrival of Duane Allman, the doomed slide-guitar genius of Allman Brothers fame.

The walled and gated estate includes a 1928 Spanish-style house with a porte-cochere, a swimming pool surrounded by a wide wooden deck and a tennis court on the acre of landscaped grounds.

Dan Stevens has revealed he is basing himself in America for the moment because it "makes sense" for his career.