Matt Powell

Chuck Berry was a walking contradiction. An inquisitive and highly intelligent student, born into a stable middle class family, who found himself incarcerated at 19 after an armed robbery spree with a broken pistol. A black man in his thirties in Jim Crow America who found a way to speak

Kris Kristofferson takes a final pull from a bottle of beer and tosses it at the trash. It misses. The glass bottle hits the concrete floor with an echo loud enough to turn heads, but it doesn’t break. He shrugs, “It was empty,” he says. Waiting to take the

This is the second installment in a continuing series each St. Patrick’s Day, using modern and traditional Irish music to explore Irish history (the first entry, Songs of Hunger, can be found here). Artists featured in this article include Van Morrison, Alison Krauss, The Chieftains, Enya, and The Pogues.

The Spanish Gothic United Artists Building, the current Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, was the perfect setting for the Vidiots Foundation's inaugural Harry Dean Stanton Award - presented to its nonagenarian namesake Sunday evening as the first in an annual recognition of artists who have helped define

“Those in power write the history, those who suffer write the songs.” - Frank Harte All across America on March 17 people will don Leprechaun hats of cheap green plastic and drink cups of cheap green beer and otherwise carry on in foolish revelry caricaturing a culture they know little

Wake up, wake up little Betty What makes you sleep so sound When the highway robbers are a-comin’ They’ll tear your playhouse down The little cabin in Ridgetop, Tennessee hadn’t held a soul in over twenty years. The crime scene chalk and blood were wiped away and the