For years before it was released in 2001, the Drive-By Truckers’ high-concept album “Southern Rock Opera” existed only as a topic of conversation and consternation as the band worked the concert ...

Rock opera is a very niche sub-genre that hasn’t necessarily graced the music industry in a successful manner regularly. However, when it has, it has made history. Two musicians who made a killing on ...

Closely associated with Meat Loaf, Jim Steinman also wrote over-the-top hits for Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply and Celine Dion, as well as music for... Jim Steinman, Writer Of Operatic Rock Hits For Meat ...

Those who caught my review in March 2007 of the Clay Withrow band's album "Dissonance Rising" will have a good idea what to expect from the debut album of Withrow's new project, the ...

AT THE HELM: Opera in the Rock CEO Fred Owens in the company’s new downtown headquarters. Credit: Brian Chilson Not yet 10 years old, Little Rock’s Opera in the Rock arts organization has flown ...