Eight questions with Béla Fleck

Superstar banjo slinger Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn bring all the banjo you can handle to Des Moines on Saturday, Feb. 17 at Hoyt Sherman Place. The husband and wife [...]

Handsome Ghost

Very much alive A friend’s bizarre joke, some weird vocal tricks and a former English teacher with a love of music, that’s what created the band Handsome Ghost. This isn’t [...]

Skillet unleashed Rockers continue their holy mission with new album, tour By Darren Tromblay Photos by Joseph Cultice It’s a Thursday afternoon a few weeks prior to the launch of a massive [...]

Lavender Country comes out singing

In 1973, Lou Reed snuck a coy reference to transgender actress Candy Darling into the hit “Walk on the Wild Side,” and David Bowie was blurring the line of sexuality [...]

Tattoos, turtles and misadventures

American post-hardcore band Pierce the Veil, formed by brothers Vic and Mike Fuentes in San Diego in 2006, has been on a steady rise in recent years. The band’s 2012 [...]

Walter Trout: Alive at Lefty’s

There are certain naming conventions live albums tend to stick to: “Live at Leads,” “Live at Budokan,” “Live at Carnegie Hall.” But Walter Trout’s new live album, “Alive at Amsterdam,” [...]

KISS: still shouting out loud

Whether you like the music or not, there’s a certainty that comes with seeing KISS perform live on a big stage: You will be entertained. The pyro, lasers, video, thousands [...]

To hell and back: Twisted Sister’s rise, fall and return to the top

On May 30, 2015, legendary East Coast hard rockers Twisted Sister played a 90-minute concert in Las Vegas — the first in a series of shows dedicated to A.J. Pero, [...]

Heaven’s sevens

Michael Sweet’s relentless pursuit of The Way

After more than 30 years of being in the crosshairs of pastors, parents and pundits alike, Michael Sweet knows that being the front man of Christian hard rock’s most successful [...]