Sammy Rae attributed her songwriting inspirations to Billy Joel, Paul Simon and Bruce Springsteen, among other great guitar and piano lyricists. Arranging becomes a highly collaborative process for ...
First Avenue’s Best New Bands brought together seven up-and-coming Twin Cities acts in a show on Jan. 20 that featured eccentric stage presences and captivating songwriting by all. The Best New Bands, ...
As I Lay Dying bassist and clean vocalist Ryan Neff has quit the band, as revealed in a new statement less than one month before the band's new album comes out. Neff was one of three members who ...
Young people who came of age before the twenty-first century, Franz Nicolay argues in a new book called “Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music,” could be forgiven for assuming that ...