With a new year comes more new books, and new worlds to explore, both imagined and real, historical and present-day.

The show celebrates the power of ballads – by which I do not mean the Power Ballads of stadium rock with their heavy drumming ...

The link to Streets of Philadelphia is not the title but the intent. Both understand protest not as shouting but as refusing ...

Bruce Springsteen processes the killings of two civilians by ICE in Minneapolis musically: On Wednesday, the "Boss" released ...

New York’s Greenwich Village in the 1960’s was the epicenter of American counterculture, and a magnet for actors, songwriters ...

Music, arts and more coming to Snohomish County ...

As one half of the famed rhythm duo Sly and Robbie, he played with some of the biggest names in music, including Bob Dylan ...

Pepper spray, camouflage gear and a threat of deadly force don’t hold the typical sounds of music. However, in the political ...

There is good news and bad news for North Carolina’s public schools.• The General Assembly’s new law, starting January 1st, banning most cell phone use by students during classroom time, appears to be ...

No snow here, but my young cousin’s wife in Arkansas enjoyed sledding for the first time! Pretty crazy when the deep south ...

It was the culmination of years of eroding journalistic standards and executives bending the knee to stay in Trump’s good ...

It was 56 years ago…  Coming across this Melody Maker front page story from January 31,1970 prompted me to recall the events of 56 years ago when Led Zeppelin were undertaking a long awaited UK ...