Music

Joe Diffie was born on December 18th, 1958, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His music career started at age 14, performing with his Aunt’s band. It was a family band with his father playing guitar and banjo…

Since the mid-2000s Avenged Sevenfold has been one of the pillars of modern metal, regularly headlining tours and festivals, in many people’s eyes they are as close to the “next Metallica” as we have right…

Supertramp were always the kind of band you could never quite put your finger on. Where they art-rock? Prog rock? Pop? Maybe even a little bit classical? The answer usually depended on the day of…

Steve Miller Band was part of the iconic San Francisco music scene. Albums like Children of the Future added to the hallucinatory counter-culture. .However, their music also had many overtones of classic Americana. As the…

Psychedelic rock was a product of experimentation with mind altering drugs during the 60’s. By taking these hallucinogens, people believed that their minds were expanding in an almost spiritual way. Also known as psychedelia, it…

Jerry Lee Lewis is a singer and pianist who was born in Louisiana in 1935. Often known by the nickname ‘The Killer,’ Lewis is one of the most influential pianists of the 20th century and…

The Kalimba is a musical instrument that originated in eastern and southern Africa at least 1,500 years ago. It is also known as the Mbira, the Lamellophone and the Thumb Piano. The instrument is a…

Jack Harlow is a rapper on the rise. Just a little under 6 years ago, he released his first commercial EP. Since then, he’s won a major record deal, toured festivals across the country, scored…

Cornell “Nelly” Haynes Jr. was born on November 2, 1974, in Austin, Texas. Early in life, his parents divorced, and he moved with his mother from St. Louis to University City. When he was younger,…