Kevin Williams

The gift of humor It's the day after Christmas, and you've had just about all of the love, kindness and bonhomie that you can stand for one month. Yes, we...

Here's your fair warning that tickets for music, dance and an array of theater performances are still available for shows on New Year's Eve. You don't want to be the...

This is an ode to Barry Manilow. That's right. Barry Manilow. Go ahead. Laugh. I used to. I also used to throw about nicknames like Barely Manenough and bellow "Ohhhh,...

Gwar forces us to ask, what is live rock 'n' roll? No, this isn't one of those dorky existential questions that writers like to ask. It's a serious one that...

My most enduring memory of Rob Zombie was in an Ozzfest performance. He was riding herd over the madness that was a performance of "Superbeast," from the recording "Hellbilly Deluxe."...

You sit around, thinking about what to do with your hard-earned music dollars. Or maybe you just want to go out and bang your head. Either way, we have a...

Yay! It isn't that we're all that excited, it's just that the uncontrolled exuberance that Fool's Gold brings to the party is impossible to resist. World music is probably the...

As Hey Mercedes sang in "Our Weekend Starts on Wednesday," "Hooray!" This is quite the month for those wistful emo kids. Not only is Hey Mercedes playing a gig at...

We love Wayne Hancock, and you should too. Simple, right? But as usual, the argument is a lot more complicated. Music these days is sampled, AutoTuned, beat boxed and DJ'd...

On the Bummer-O-Meter, the fact that, as is customary, Nashville Pussy isn't rounding out this triple bill of Motorhead and Reverend Horton Heat gets the needle going pretty good. Because...