Before he arrived at the Old Joliet Prison south of Chicago, now the Joliet Area Historical Museum, Erik Devereux made sure his ensemble was in appropriate Blues Brothers order. The basics weren’t a ...

Morgan Freeman's Symphonic Blues Experience, out Aug. 7, includes his collaboration with Taj Mahal of the Son House classic "Death Letter Blues" ...

The color has an unshakable hold on musicians, artists and writers. The background color is inspired by International Klein Blue, a hue that the artist Yves Klein first mixed in the 1950s, using it to ...

It was cold and snowy in New York City 100 years ago today, and Aeolian Hall, across from Bryant Park, was packed. Composers Sergei Rachmaninov and John Philip Sousa were in the audience, along with ...

February 12, 1924, was a frigid day in New York City. But that didn’t stop an intrepid group of concertgoers from gathering in midtown Manhattan’s Aeolian Hall for “An Experiment in Modern Music.” The ...

Thirty years ago, Weezer embarked on one of the more improbable careers in pop history with the release of the band’s self-titled debut album. Self-consciously nerdy in an era of scuzzy post-grunge ...

Rooted in the Mississippi Delta, the blues sprang from spiritual music and field hollers, spinning a cultural thread that followed the Great Black Migration from South to North. Sheer joy of ...

A compelling part of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is its depiction and dissection of music’s power—how its commonalities can bring people together and how quickly it can be appropriated, weaponized by those ...