Chrissie Hynde

Ann Courtney has an entrancing voice, suited equally to textured numbers evoking PJ Harvey and Nick Cave and uptempo kiss-offs recalling Chrissie Hynde and Kristin Hersh. Read More

Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Aretha Franklin, Chrissie Hynde, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant — to town for once-in-a-lifetime tribute concerts. Read More

"It was from a little photograph of Ray Davies (that) I found in a wallet. We were trying to work the song out in soundchecks for a while, but later when my guitar player died I finished the song off with him in mind." Read More

With all of his recent tweeting and tabloid coverage, it's a wonder John Mayer had time to write new music -- much less the best and most adventurous of his four studio albums. Read More

With all of his recent tweeting and tabloid coverage, it's a wonder John Mayer had time to write new music -- much less the best and most adventurous of his four studio albums. Read More

my record is going to receive the front review slot in rolling stone and mojo. all you can do to get a good review, or prevent a bad one, is to try to make a totally kickass record. even if you create some kind of masterpiece, you still might get trashed. all you can do is make the best record you are humanly capable of. - i imagine that a critic who hates my ass is assigned a review of my record. can i make a record good enough to surpass that person's scrutiny? again, all you can do is try. we made it a double, knowing it would make a better single. but me and hubert and salim all worship the white album. so we realized that if we were ever gonna make a double, this would have to be it. you might research it, but i'm pretty sure this is the first double album of any kind out of dallas. *don't know if that one counts, as he had already done wonderwall and electronic sounds, but all things was his first 'real' album of his new career as a solo artist. can you think of any others? Read More

Firestone High School in Akron needs some help with its visual and performing arts program. Read More

I n some ways, the career of folk empress Judy Collins has come full circle. Read More

Akron rock legends The Bizarros and Tin Huey will play with up-and-coming musicians from Firestone High School (FHS) and Akron at Stone Stock 2009, a fund-raiser for the Friends of Firestone Visual and Performing Arts (VPA). Read More

Few bands live up to their names as well as Air. The French electronic duo makes gravity-defying disco-pop that can be as foreboding as it is frothy (see the 2000 soundtrack to "The Virgin Suicides"). Read More