I’ve spent the past two weeks digging “Guts of Steel,” the fine new CD from Brimstone Howl that comes to stores Tuesday. The release would be news in itself. But it’s even more notable because the ...

It’s hard to believe the three soft-spoken, leather-clad guys crammed into a booth at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Union are the same guys who play with such energy and force at every ...

KALAMAZOO-- Chicago band Mannequin Men's new album, "Use Your Illusion, Too" (Flameshovel Records, 2009) is scuzzy but not too scuzzy, loud but not too loud. "It's sort of just what comes naturally," ...

While recording Lightnin' Hopkins in 1959, Sam Charters found the Houston-based blues player could be elusive. As Charters described in his book Country Blues, Hopkins insisted on being paid in cash, ...