The Echo may not seem a place for a book party, much less a pajama party, but last night it served as both those things. Writer Willy Vlautin came to town from Portland to launch his fourth novel, The ...

Even allowing for the fact that authors don't always get to choose their titles, Nancy Spada's new "Beyond the Handsomeness: A Biography of Thomas Schippers" (Universal Music) hits a sour note. Her ...

Bruce Hampton made one of the most dramatic exits in rock ‘n’ roll history — and rock ‘n’ roll is full of dramatic exits. His onstage departure at his 70th birthday party concert, in front of a packed ...

Sinatra: The Life, by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan. Alfred A. Knopf, 576 pages, $26.95. I believe, based on a lifetime of consideration, that Frank Sinatra was the greatest interpretive musician ...

Ross Reynolds talks with author Holly George-Warren about her new biography of musician Alex Chilton, "A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From Box Tops to Big Star to ...

A cultured, musical family from Puerto Rico settled in Rutherford in the mid-1920s. The family patriarch was Fernando Callejo Ferrer, a cultural icon whose legacy will be celebrated this year in his ...

Wait a minute. The biography of long-haired hippie rock-'n'-roll burnout Neil Young is a business book? Sure. He owns Lionel Trains (the company, not just a bunch of little locomotives) with a couple ...

A new biography recently revealed George Harrison‘s typically witty response to being stabbed 40 times by an intruder. The life of the Beatles musician, who died of cancer on this day (29 November) in ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In his new biography "I Will Sing My Songs Again: The Inconceivable Life ...

One of country music’s most respected performers and recording artists, Bobby Bare enjoyed commercial and chart success from the late 1950s through the mid-1980s. His emotionally compelling, ...