I was very nearly a pop star. At 17, I signed a record deal with my band, Half Brother. Our album – of love songs – came out in the same month as the Sex Pistols’ debut, Never Mind the Bollocks, so ...

The Humphreys Concerts By the Bay series is celebrating its 45th anniversary with a lineup of over 30 shows.

Championed by the BBC’s John Peel and signed to Rough Trade, the band were punk when that meant DIY, psychedelia and prog as well as screaming chords. What’s more, they loved Pink Floyd ...

During a Dire Straits hiatus in 1989, Mark Knopfler reconnected with musicians from his college days in Leeds to make a country record that became a hit.

"It's kind of like, if you use us, you know we're here," the owner of Babylon Burning, San Francisco's oldest screen printing ...

There is some qualified good news if you are reluctant to spend $5,000 for a front-row ticket for a Kid Rock concert or a ...

Grace Jones returned to St Kilda for a commanding Palace Foreshore performance, revisiting Nightclubbing, Warm Leatherette and Slave To The Rhythm in a rain-soaked Melbourne show.

Manhattan was a mess in the mid 70s. The middle classes had upped sticks to the suburbs, leaving the city centre to fester as Mayor Beame led New York to the brink of bankruptcy. In the thick of a ...

He almost got picked for the Rolling Stones, helped Bob Marley become a superstar, passed on joining Lynyrd Skynyrd, dated Joni Mitchell, and lived in music mogul David Geffen’s house. What a life ...