For those of you who celebrate the holiday, Record Store Day is rapidly approaching, and if you haven’t scanned the list of available hot w...

Throughout a career that has spanned four decades, guitarist Duke Robillard has brought his immense talents to bear on a vast range of blue...

Both as a solo artist and as the esteemed frontman of the Austin, Texas-based Omar & the Howlers, bluesman Omar Kent Dykes has made no ...

For almost three-and-a-half decades, gravel-throated Omar Kent Dykes and his Austin, Texas based band the Howlers have delivered cheap thri...

On paper, it must have seemed like a match made in heaven for German blues label Ruf Records. Combine gravel-throated vocalist Omar Kent Dyk...

The Montreux Jazz Festival was launched in June 1967 and while the esteemed annual event, held on the Lake Geneva shoreline in Switzerland, ...

Formed in the industrial wasteland that was late ‘70s Cleveland, Ohio, the Pagans were the result of the same disturbing musical zeitgeist t...

Foreshadowed by the excellent ‘Merican EP a few months ago, the first Descendents’ album in eight years certainly does not disappoint. Feat...

A ratty, dank, dark dive of a bar, CBGB in New York City has nevertheless earned its own chapter in rock ‘n’ roll history. A biker bar orig...