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Chicago musicians share memories of the first concert they attended.

Little Richard PBS Doc reveals gay origins of 'Tutti Frutti.'

Club Ebony, the world-famous Indianola blues bar, has undergone a total renovation and is reopening to the public this weekend after more than a year. After discovering structural issues within the facility, owners of the nightclub decided to begin a complete renovation project to bring Club Ebony up to date,...

Club Ebony, a famed blues venue in Indianola, Mississippi, that was part of the chitlin circuit — a loose network of Black-owned clubs and venues

Lawmakers in the House of Representatives reintroduced sweeping bipartisan legislation to rein in and reform the nation’s abuse-prone civil forfeiture laws on Wednesday. If passed, the aptly-named FAIR, or Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration, Act—sponsored by Reps. Tim Walberg, R-Mich.; Tom McClintock, R-Calif.; Thomas Massie, R-Ky.; Jamie Raskin, D-Md.; Tony Cardenas, D-Calif.; and Bobby Rush, D-Ill.—would rebalance a system that has become skewed against innocent property owners in eve...

Pete Brown, one of Hastings’ most respected musicians/song writers and lyricist for many of supergroup Cream’s greatest hits, has died at the age of 82 from what he recently described as “various forms of cancer.”

Kenny Wayne Shepherd kicks off the outdoor concert season in Bend

R.I.P.

At least six more members of Congress have violated the STOCK Act by failing to disclose transactions — up to $376,280 collectively — within a 45-day federal deadline, according to Raw Story analysis of congressional financial documents.The majority of the late disclosure dollars came from Rep. Jona...

A jazz poet and countercultural hero who wrote lyrics for Cream, Brown died last week aged 82. In this interview at sessions last month for his final LP, he explained why he was making art until the end