The Music Experience band has to approximate 35 years of rock 'n' roll songs at each show. You’ve got 90 minutes of stage time to distill the history of rock ’n’ roll. Can it be done? The debut of The ...

Checker attended ZZ Top’s show Nov. 4 at the Santa Barbara Bowl. After the band’s frontman singer-guitarist Billy F Gibbons ...

Anticipation was high when the doors opened to the Bluebird Theater on April 26. The night’s show was a stacked bill, with some of the best rock bands in Denver: funk-rock act May Be Fern and ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — “The Legend Theatre Dinner Show,” a two-act production hosted by Al Lambert and Mickey Burns, was staged last week at Osteria Santina in Westerleigh. Burns, who for more than two ...

Whether it’s college bands cutting their teeth in Isla Vista or rising artists packing downtown stages, it’s no secret that Santa Barbara is fertile ground for new talent. But for younger musicians ...

Sonny Curtis, a vintage rock ‘n’ roller who wrote the raw classic “I Fought the Law” and posed the enduring question “Who can turn the world on with her smile?” as the writer-crooner of the theme song ...

The 1950s saw rock ‘n’ roll burst onto the scene and change music forever. From Elvis Presley’s hip-shaking performances that scandalized parents and drove teens wild to Chuck Berry’s epic guitar ...