Steve Knopper

High On Fire, the bruising metal band from Oakland, Calif., has yet to play its only love song on stage. Part of this is because last year's "The Cave," about...

The first time Larry Williams performed a classic Muddy Waters blues song, "I'm Ready," he was 21 or 22. "I did it around the house with family," he says, "and...

George Winston is perhaps the only living human who could turn one of his most terrifying health scares into pretty piano music about spring. Four years ago, he had to...

At the end of a 15-minute interview, Brad Shultz of Cage the Elephant says six magic words: "Actually, you know, there's a funny story." It seems the Bowling Green, Ky.,...

Every time Cole Swindell performs his hit "You Should Be Here," about his late father, he somehow manages not to choke up. William Keith Swindell was 65, in 2013, when...

One regular visitor to the $85-a-month, three-bedroom house Joe Ely shared 45 years ago with four other musicians in Lubbock, Texas, was a carpenter named Steve Wesson. He would show...

At the end of the Dickies' brilliant, three-minute 1979 version of the Moody Blues' classic-rock staple "Nights In White Satin," a gong rings out amid the din of punk-rock guitars....

In the process of converting its Halloween concerts to an annual three-day festival over the past few years, the promoters behind Freaky Deaky hit on a reliable formula. React Presents...

Once upon a time, before making precious, soft-spoken albums about love and mortality, members of the Scottish band Teenage Fanclub cranked up the electric guitars and roared as loudly as...