COLUMBIA — Four kids who met at the University of South Carolina and honed their song-writing skills in messy apartments and on cramped bar stages in Columbia created one of the soundtracks of the ...

Hootie & the Blowfish aren’t on tour this summer — and that’s just fine with the band’s lead guitarist Mark Bryan. "There's never been a time where I thought I wouldn't be making music," says Bryan, ...

Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, and Mark Bryan, of Hootie & the Blowfish, pose for a portrait at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C. The band is returning with a tour and album 25 years ...

Darius Rucker, Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, and Jim Sonefeld founded Hootie & the Blowfish in the mid-1980s while the first two musicians were studying at the University of South Carolina. The rock band ...

"It's more about trying to give songs life. And I've spent my adult life doing just that," he tells PEOPLE The guitarist plays a hometown show at The Atlantis in Washington, DC on Friday Hootie & the ...