Just before 5pm on Sun., May 31, Seattle-based singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile looked out at the large, energetic and sweaty crowd from her perch, front and center on the Nelsonville Music Festival’s Main Stage...
After an hour-long drive, Doug Suiter is sitting at high stool at The Machine Shop in Flint, Michigan, one hand on his knee and the other wrapped around a sixteen-ounce can of Bud Light, waiting to see if Whitey Morgan is the real deal.
Jon Fine is a longtime business writer currently serving as executive editor of Inc. magazine, a James Beard-award winning food and wine writer, and the former guitarist for such barely-known bands as Bitch Magnet, Vineland, and Coptic Light.
In 2009, Derek Stanton and his band Awesome Color had just moved back to their native Michigan from New York City.
“Play me something” says the tenor master during our first lesson together. I squirm uncomfortably in my socks, having left my shoes at the door of the immaculate if modest music studio.
Henry “Hank” LoConti, music legend and founder of the Agora, dies at the age of 85 after nearly 50 years in the music business in Cleveland.
Rustbelt Almanac interviews Andre Costello about music and making it in Pittsburgh.
The story of the industrial Midwest can be told through the music it inspired. From John Lee Hooker to MC5 to Eminem, here's our playlist of 20 Rust Belt tunes.
Wilton Crump, doo-wop sensation and Jackson Five collaborator, might be this hard-working city’s hardest-working man in showbiz.
The Cleveland hip-hop project got its start tapping on the bunk beds at church camp. Now they're chopping up Anthrax and Pere Ubu.
Mourning mornings without my favorite radio host.