Ludacris, Daughtry, The Beach Boys and the B-52s are among the performers set for The Tampa Bay Rays Summer Concert Series. ...more

April 9, 2009

There are names that seem to sum up a band's sound and image in a few syllables. ...more

February 12, 2009

As Bruce Springsteen's lyrics began moving into the grim grown-up world, musical asceticism began to set in. The bold, brash arrangements of "Born to Run" were jettisoned for populist four-chord rock, and it made sense that Springsteen began alternating E Street albums with stark, acoustic-based solo efforts such as "Nebraska." ...more

January 29, 2009

Joey Putnall, a second-grader at Jackson Elementary in Plant City, has courted the waves since he was knee-high to a sand flea and the only thing dragging him down was a soggy diaper. ...more

December 2, 2008

Joey Putnall, a second-grader at Jackson Elementary in Plant City, has courted the waves since he was knee-high to a sand flea and the only thing dragging him down was a soggy diaper. ...more

December 1, 2008

Five years ago, musician Gary Filip traded the skyscrapers and smoke-filled bars of Chicago for the sunshine and scrub of the Heartland. ...more

November 18, 2008

DENNIS WILSON: PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE (1977) The middle Wilson boy's solo album returns to print in this elaborate two-disc edition. More famous as the Beach Boys' only surfer than for his musical ability, Wilson surprised many with the beauty and power of this disc. Sadly, the addictions that would kill him six years later also prevented the completion of a planned follow-up, but the second disc culls tracks from those sessions for a look at what might have been. ...more

June 12, 2008