By Pietro Truba Special to The State News Genre-blending, face-melting rock music comes home today as the Chicago-based rock sextet Umphrey's McGee returns to The Intersection in Grand Rapids. Bass player Ryan Stasik says it is nice to come back to Michigan and play in front of his family and old high school friends.
Hanson is not the same band it was eight years ago when "MmmBop" took over the airwaves with its infectious pop melody.
Jordan Knight has a new album out. Yes, that's right. Jordan Knight, formerly of the New Kids On The Block fame.
Looking to start a band, but you're low on cash? Want to lead a sing-a-long in your dorm room, but your wallet's looking thin?
Sanawon's strength is in singer Jenny Choi. She has a hauntingly pretty voice. The band is only made up of two members — Choi and drummer Philip Stone — but it's clear who Sanawon's star is.
Rogue Wave's second album, "Descended Like Vultures," is nothing more than solid melodic pop-rock.
The Ludacris and Ciara concert scheduled for 8 p.m. Thursday is canceled because of low ticket sales, the Breslin Center announced in a press release Monday afternoon. Full refunds will be available at 10 a.m.
The Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra will present "Muffitt's Comet" at 8 p.m. today in the Cobb Great Hall at the Wharton Center. The show will feature Timothy Muffitt, who is currently the music director of the Baton Rouge Symphony, a position he has held for six seasons.
Andy Bothwell is Astronautalis — one of the many artists breaking stereotypes and defying genres lately.
Take a step back in time to the sunshine-filled days of the '60s and '70s with The Go! Team.
The first track from the morning after girls' first U.S. release sounds like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club with its fuzzy guitar rock and smooth, blended-in vocals.
"Armed Love" is not a new album - it's more than a year old, but it was just released in the United States for the first time Tuesday.
The MSU School of Music is trying to help in the aftermath of the recent hurricane devastation. On Sunday, jazz professors, MSU School of Music faculty and a variety of guest performers will pay tribute to the distinct New Orleans-style of jazz music with "Tribute to New Orleans," a concert benefiting the New Orleans music scene and victims of the hurricanes. The concert is at 3 p.m.
What has kept the popularity of Bob Dylan rolling in the minds and pockets of a world audience for almost five decades?
The title of We Are Wolves' debut album implies the band sings in French, but the sparse lyrics within "Non-Stop Je Te Plie en Deux" are all in English.
All three members of The Like have a musical parent - Both Charlotte Froom and Z. Berg's dads are producers for major labels and Tennessee Thomas' dad was a drummer in Elvis Costello's Attractions. The girls' lineage might automatically sway some from giving them a listen.
Somewhere in the bowels of the Metro concert hall in the heart of Wrigleyville on the North side of Chicago, Coheed and Cambria's lead singer and guitarist Claudio Sanchez emerges from a backstage hangout, the laughter of his bandmates echoing behind him.
There are few heartbreaks more thoroughly chronicled in the annals of popular music than the painful breakup.
Would it really be blues without trouble brewing all around? Because when it comes to the blues, either your mate isn't treating you right or the weather treats you like a chump.
Every once in a while, a brave soul decides to challenge State News music reporter Benita Mehta. This time around, graphic artist and G-Unit fan Brian Feeny discusses two of the hip-hop troupe's latest offerings. Benita's thoughts I'll admit I knew nothing about G-Unit or Tony Yayo when I discovered 50 Cent's new "The Massacre (Special Edition)" and Tony Yayo's "Thoughts of a Predicate Felon" in my mailbox this week.