If you think two weekends of Jazz Fest will sate your musical cravings for a while, think and think again. On May 11, Tipitina's is throwing a Battle of the Bands, New Orleans vs. Baltimore/Washington ...

- "The King Is Dead," (Capitol, 3½ stars): With 2009's proggy "The Hazards of Love," the Decemberists' leader, Colin Meloy, went all-in with his fanciful British folk fixation, spinning a rock opera ...

Would a big band by any other name swing as hard? That's really hard to say (pardon the pun) but is certainly true on Red Beats, an implacably swinging album deftly performed by drummer Steve Fidyk's ...

SPRINGFIELD — Buddy McEarns first became interested in songwriting for several reasons, the first one being pretty common among young men. “Besides trying to impress a girl — now my wife by the way, ...