Dave Alvin

City Winery is positioning itself at the upper crust of the Chicago music scene, a venue where patrons can sip vintage wine and dine on pricey food while listening to top-shelf musicians in what is billed as a state-of-the-art listening room. For some,...

Lewis Black goes from zero to peripatetic faster than almost anybody you've met, or seen. The comedian's ire is our expectation and our treat, and in an audience before him, we relish the F-oaths delivered to Facebook, to politicians, even to us. We root...

Into a live music scene already stuffed with clubs, City Winery promises something different: Music and food in a wine-country atmosphere. But will it be enough to draw traffic from already well-trafficked clubs and restaurants within miles, if not a...

Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio closed on Sunday. Kenny Rogers was among the final day performers at the 2012 edition of the Stagecoach festival....

"Yes, it's like musical whiplash -- that's a good term for it," Aaron Lewis said of his gearshift from fronting his long-running hard rock band Staind on Saturday in Mesa, Ariz., to his solo turn Sunday the playing his more rootsy material from his recent...

It took two years of behind-the-scenes wrangling, but the members of the '80s Inland Empire cowpunk-metal band the Unforgiven were rounded up for their first concert performance in more than a quarter century Sunday at Stagecoach in Indio, Calif....

On his way into the Stagecoach grounds where he was set to play Saturday afternoon, Dave Alvin recalled the last time he played the country/roots-focused event event, in 2009 with the Knitters, L.A.'S rootsy offshoot of X and the Blasters....

Highlights from the first two days of the 2012 Stagecoach Country Music Festival include performances by Miranda Lambert, Steve Martin, Blake Shelton and Jason Aldean. The Mavericks reunion and roots-rock singer-songwriter Dave Alvin also provided...

Throughout the week and holiday season, Pop & Hiss will be presenting various top 10 lists from its contributors. What follows are the favorite albums of the year from staffer Randy Lewis....

Roots rock aficionado Dave Alvin remembers Johnny Otis, the bandleader, songwriter, producer and disc jockey who died Jan. 17 at age 90. Johnny Otis "was as important as Sam Phillips or Leonard Chess in discovering new talent," Alvin writes....

Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton and Jason Aldean headline 2012 Stagecoach Festival in Indio. Stagecoach Festival will expand to three days next year....

There weren't many people in the crowd for Dave Alvin and the Guilty Ones on Thursday at the Social. That big line on the sidewalk along Orange Avenue was for the hip-hop collective Odd Future at the Beacham next door. To a lesser musician, the...