“I was reticent about how people might take this,” says Midge Ure. On his way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the midwest leg of his Band in a Box tour, Ure has been revisiting the music of his former ...

Although Seattle quartet Alice in Chains are regularly associated with the grunge movement of the ‘90s, they are also, somewhat arguably, a metal band. In fact, original vocalist Layne Staley was a ...

At some point in nearly everyone’s life, the thought of becoming a rock star crosses their mind. The fame, the glory, and the adoration all sound pretty great—but first, you need to start a band. It’s ...

Listen to noodling tracks by Dave Matthews Band, Grateful Dead, Goose and more. By Marc Tracy It has become a joke among a few friends and colleagues that I am the newspaper’s jam band correspondent.