Howlin' Wolf (1910-1976)
Standing six-foot-three and weighing almost 300 pounds, Chester Burnett, popularly known as "Howlin' Wolf," was, in the words of Giles Oakley, ...
Read more
It turns out there's something Chuck E's not in love with. It's his "The Other Side of Town" album.The work, out of print for decades, suddenly re-emerged this month, and Chuck E. Weiss wasn't happ...
Read more
Here are some popular Halloween destinations around the country and what they have to offer this year.Key West, Fla., is holding its annual Fantasy Fest 2007 Oct. 19-28 with a "Gnomes, Toads & ...
Read more
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rock 'n' roll pioneer Ike
Turner, who rose to fame in the 1950s and became a star
performing with his ex-wife Tina Turner, has died at age 76,
said an official with the per...
Read more
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rock 'n' roll pioneer Ike
Turner, whose achievements as one of the founding fathers of
the genre were overshadowed by ex-wife Tina Turner's claims
that he regularly beat he...
Read more
Legendary bluesman Robert Johnson's death has been linked to a jealous husband, the supernatural and pneumonia. So it's unsurprising that there are three separate graves bearing his name in the rur...
Read more
One of the great things about cable television is you get to see people who might otherwise be inaccessible. Chuck D hardly needs to go make press rounds for his music, but with an upcoming s...
Read more
The worst role any performer can be saddled with is that of Greatest Actor of his Generation. It may look easy to play from the outside-it is, after all, the role of a lifetime-but in reality it re...
Read more