Fame comes in concentric rings. There is white-hot celebrity where crowds part and a thousand cameras click and everyone ...

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He’s built guitars for some of the very biggest names in the business and yet Don Musser remains a known unknown. We track ...

For thousands of Bay Area live music fans, Dan Durkin is best known as the cowboy-hatted front man and lead singer of Petty Theft, a phenomenally popular Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers tribute ...

Youth Piano Concerto Competition The City of Encinitas is presenting the 2025 Youth Piano Concerto Competition. Young musicians in grades K-12 are invited to compete for a first-place prize ...

James Brandon Lewis is an omnivore’s omnivore. The jazz saxophonist’s fantastic new album channels the work of Don Cherry, ...

Knowing that tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis has a highly omnivorous mind, let’s get straight to it: What time did he ...

Most fans will never get a chance to choose best picture at the Oscars. Now we’re giving you a vote with the inaugural USA ...

Fresh from co-producing his wife’s band’s new album (Larkin Poe’s excellent Bloom) and gearing up for more Shakedown activity, Tyler Bryant and his merry men hit an utterly ...

Timothée Chalamet performed two lesser-known Bob Dylan songs, in his own voice, as the musical guest as well as host of 'Saturday Night Live.' ...

The Rolling Stones have toured all over the world for over a half a century. During that time, they found their favorite ...