Steve Knopper

Just before a phone interview with Ani DiFranco, the New Orleans singer-songwriter's publicist helpfully suggests asking about her "Vote Dammit" tour. No problem. DiFranco has been a social and political...

At 15, during the summer between school years at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Joe Trohman hit the road as the bassist for a rock 'n' roll band called...

Inevitably, Simon Townshend became a musician. His father, Cliff, played saxophone in the Squadronaires, a London band also known as the Royal Air Force Dance Orchestra. His mother, Betty, had...

Compared to important things Jane Siberry has given up in the past — her belongings, her Toronto home, her name — deciding not to make records doesn't seem like a...

It's hard to explain how one man can come up with a lyric as beautiful as "Maggots and grubs bore into the moldy remains / Masticating lymph, caked blood and...

At one point in the early '70s, Fats Domino's band contained seven saxophonists, including the singer's longtime collaborator Herbert Hardesty, pioneering rock 'n' roller Lee Allen and 30-year-old Roger Lewis....

An interview with Aimee Argote, frontwoman for the Pittsboro, N.C., duo Des Ark, begins on a tragic note. In late 2013, the singer-songwriter and a friend were driving late at...

Even for an apocalyptic thrash-metal band, Lamb of God's latest album "VII: Sturm Und Drang" is dark. One song, "Torches," is about a Czech man who set himself on fire...