Arts and Entertainment

The Click Five was a power pop band founded in the mid-aughts in Boston, where most of them attended the Berklee School of Music. They scored a hit right out…

I love covers that expand the original. I love harmonizing girl groups. And I love Tracy Chapman's "Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution" as deconstructed and re-imagined by British indie folk-pop trio…

Another video by the New Orleans outfit that put musicians in the back of mule-drawn carriages in the French Quarter for acoustic sets on wheels. This time it's the Wood…

I don't know what Our Man in New Orleans has on his agenda, but he'd be a fool to pass up a chance to see this homegrown Crescent City band…

This is Van Morrison's best soul rave-up since "Jackie Wilson Says." It was originally recorded in 1980 but wasn't released until Van re-recorded it for 1990's "Enlightenment." At this tempo…

I was reading about Ed Sullivan the other day and came across a tidbit I never heard before. I knew the legendary variety show host was known for holding grudges…

When Charles Bradley was discovered by Daptone Records around the turn of the millennium, he was nearly 50 years old and performing a James Brown impersonation as Black Velvet. (Earlier…

Though there are enough weed anthems to make a playlist that lasts 4 hours and 20 minutes, my favorite is Ben Harper's Jamaica-flavored proclamation of the freedom to fire up.…

Once upon a time in America, government oppression inspired protest. Lots of it was angry. Frank Zappa's was, too, but his mode of expression was mockery, as in this oblique…

Another forgotten power pop band from the '90s, Poole hailed from northern Virginia, which helps explain why they shot this video in Ocean City, Md. "Superamerica" was the opening track…

You might have seen the headline at Philly.com or the article in Rolling Stone about the Philadelphia soul-funk band whose LP finally is being released, 50 years after it was…

Who the bleep is The Suitcase Junket, you ask? He's this guy (I'm only providing live cuts b/c that's the way he plays, and he plays everything): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isp6O--ITtg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06in-XJaCPA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In31uWgTQFk…