The Super Bowl isn’t just a game on Sunday. It’ll involve a nearly week-long spectacle taking over New Orleans with non-stop ...

Soft Machine's longest-serving member Mike Ratledge, who also worked with Syd Barrett and Kevin Ayers, has died after a short ...

Zachary Scot Johnson started the Song A Day Project, committing to performing and posting an original or cover every day.

Mike Ratledge, one of the founding members of the legendary British psych-rock band Soft Machine, has died. As Louder points out, Soft Machine guitarist John Etheridge shared the news in a Facebook ...

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Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...

Jordan Markus, starring as Michael Jackson in Wharton Center’s upcoming touring production of “MJ,” always loved with the iconic singer.

Discover the rich history of Black composers at the Washington National Cathedral's 'Onward & Upward: The Unsung Heroes of ...

Greensky Bluegrass, from Kalamazoo, Mich. aptly drops prog and jam band songs in its sets. These include Pink Floyd’s “Time” and the Dead’s “Jack Straw.” The group’s most recent album is 2022′s Stress ...

It’s a labor of love,” Mike Campbell says of his group, the Dirty Knobs. “It’s something I started doing between ...

Mike was the backbone of Soft Machine in the early years and a man with an absolutely incisive mind,” wrote Soft Machine's ...