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 ...

With 40 years as a world-touring musician, Deanna Bogart stands as a five-time winner of the Blues Music Awards Horn Instrumentalist of the Year, including a 2023 win and a 2024 nomination. Her ...

If you want to make it as an independent artist in the music business, it's important to diversify. One avenue many may not consider is to go into publishing. Not music publishing, but actual ...

Stephanie Wicker has been a fixture in Northwest rock since the early ’90s, both as a musician and a self-taught sound engineer. A talented guitarist best known for co-founding the now-defunct Western ...

Audio Books is a column focused on the latest books about music. Every month, Grant Sharples sits down with authors, journalists, and poets to discuss the latest music memoirs, biographies, essay ...

Most extraordinary of all musical geniuses was Austria’s Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Starting his career as a four-fold infant prodigy (harpsichordist, violinist, organist, composer), he wrote, during ...

A new biography and film about Yoko Ono offer more opportunities to assess her contributions to culture. Two pop music critics debate if they’re worthy of their subject. By Jon Pareles and Lindsay ...

Singer and guitarist Jeff Hanna was a high school student in Long Beach, California, when he formed the first version of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. It was 1966 – the peak in popularity of the ...