Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is the celebration leading up to Easter that marks the last day of revelry before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. This easy jambalaya recipe is a traditional dish that will take you and your family to New Orleans, eve

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The band, comprised of Matt Tanner on guitar and vocals, Neil Warren on bass and Jason Krutzky on drums and vocals, takes a very direct musical approach on the album and the result is a genuine document of Georgia rock and roll. Fountains Left To Wake co

He may be open-minded, but Aldean's music has an edge and an attitude - think Kid Rock's Southern lil' brother with more maturity and a better voice - that set him apart from such current country superstars as Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley and Keith Urban.

You know what Bigga ‘bout. Atlanta rapper Killer Mike (aka Mike Bigga) is back with that same brash brand of Hip-Hop that has him ranked by many as one of The South's most underrated MCs. Not a year removed from his critically well-received fifth album,

A BURNLEY musician is hoping to hit the big-time with his Alcatraz-themed album — thanks to a hit US TV show. Paul Waterworth, who has played with the Animals and Little Richard in a 40-year career, has had more than one million hits on his songs online.

For many viewers, tonight's Grammy Awards ceremony will be more than just a TV music show. It will be a history lesson of mythic proportions. When modern country fans tune in for a performance by Blake Shelton and The Band Perry, they also will get to se

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell said it first, back in 1968, and for a long time I believed them: "Ain't nothin' like the real thing, baby." They were singing about love. I'm talking about live music, but for me they are one and the same. Ever since I saw

A funny thing happens when you listen to both discs of Bob Seger’s new greatest hits anthology: There doesn’t seem to be any difference between songs recorded decades apart. Indeed, the whole thing plays like a double album recorded all at once, apart fr

Before Elvis and Little Richard, there were Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The songwriters together changed the face of music, writing many of the biggest hits of the 1950s and 1960s. So grab your dancing shoes and join the fun as The Bayonne High School

But the bottom line is this: Somehow, in the midst of the circus that surrounded him, Jackson managed to leave behind one of the most impressive catalogs in the history of music. Rarely has an artist been so adept at communicating the vitality and vulner

Who can forget Koko B. Ware belting out that classic hit, "Piledriver," or Mean Gene channeling Little Richard for "Tutti Frutti"? The 80's Rock and Wrestle boom opened the door for every wrestler, manager and personality to exercise their vocal chords a

[Note: by the criteria laid out in Songbook #12, this is not a Rock song, but a rock n’ roll one.] Songbook #37 considered the New-Wave-cloaked revival of earlier rock and roll styles burbling amid the early 80s pop charts, but now it’s time to go down t

Is there anything that the enigmatic Sam Shepard hasn’t done? The man has been everywhere, done everything. A partial list: stable hand, busboy and waiter, herdsman, orange picker, a musician (with an eccentric group called “The Holy Modal Rounders,” gli

The Jan. 20 death of 72-year-old rhythm-and-blues legend Etta James, just three days after the death of her mentor, bandleader Johnny Otis, is a sad reminder that the early pioneers of rock-n-roll are a dying breed. Of those who helped define rock’s earl

NEW YORK -- In an era when Beyonce and Jay-Z are music royalty, when Barack Obama is the nation's chief executive, and when black stars in the cast of a TV show are commonplace, it may be har

NEW YORK — In an era when Beyonce and Jay-Z are music royalty, when Barack Obama is the nations chief executive, and when black stars in the cast of a TV show are commonplace, it may be hard to grasp the magnitude of what Don Cornelius created once he go

NEW YORK (AP) -- In an era when Beyonce and Jay-Z are music royalty, when Barack Obama is the nation's chief executive, and when black stars in the cast of a TV show are commonplace, it may be hard to grasp the magnitude of what Don Cornelius created onc

NEW YORK -- In an era when Beyonce and Jay-Z are music royalty, when Barack Obama is the nation's chief executive, and when black stars in the cast of a TV show are commonplace, it may be hard to grasp the magnitude of what Don Cornelius created once he