Herri Hamid of Malaysian indie rock band Bittersweet is a survivor in more ways than one. In March 2017, Herri met with a motorcycle accident that put him in a two-week coma and led to the amputation ...
Robbie Robertson is one of rock’s greatest storytellers, and on a new track, he sets his sights on his own remarkable history. “Once Were Brothers,” which PEOPLE exclusively premieres today, is a ...
Four folk musicians were doing different sets in Madison around the holidays and found that they couldn’t help singing along on each other’s pieces. So they decided to form a Christmas band. What’s a ...
The holiday season starts early for the four members of the Bittersweet Christmas Band. "Our rehearsals begin in early October, but we like the season so much," said Bittersweet band member Susan ...
With a buzzworthy new record, the band proves that nothing will stop them, if they stick together. In the middle of it all is Herri, the anti-thesis of a typical musical savant. He’s a man of few ...
Leslie "Les" Muncaster figures he and his wife, Marcia, have performed at least 240 concerts with Ocala’s Kingdom of the Sun Concert Band over the last 24 years, but the number is likely higher. Les, ...
Robbie Robertson is no stranger to mythologizing his time at the helm of the Band. "Once Were Brothers" is no exception. He and Martin Scorsese were certainly shooting for mythic in the celebrated ...
The quintet Manzanita was started by vocalist Patrick Knowles and guitarist Tanner Zelinsky, after a chance meeting in an empty parking lot in the Tenderloin. Together the pair writes most of ...
The touring Broadway musical “The Band’s Visit” begins with the same words on a screen that opened the lovely 2007 movie that inspired it: “Not so long ago, a group of musicians came to Israel from ...
It’s just after 9:00 on a Thursday night in downtown Minneapolis, and the sidewalks in front of First Avenue are crammed with people. The Revolution are about to play their first show since the death ...