Grace Slick

Amalgamated Muck Saturday June 30th, The Chester Meeting House, 4 Liberty St., Chester, (860) 526-0015.   She has been known by different names, affected an amazing number of different personae, hooked up with varying varieties of musical ensembles....

As a teenager in ‘60s San Francisco, Joe Louis Walker lived just blocks away from Sly Stone, roomed with Mike Bloomfield, and played shows with B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix and Thelonious Monk. Walker was the 16-year-old house guitarist at the Matrix,...

Allentown Art Museum, celebrating its $15.4 million renovation and expansion with an exhibit of rock ‘n’ roll photos, will tie the show to more than two dozen rock-related events involving Lehigh Valley music venues, other institutions and...

Here’s why 1980s music artists shouldn’t turn their acts into revues or oldies shows: Because their audiences want to remember them as they were, and don’t want to be reminded that they have aged, too. Thank goodness Terri Nunn, leader.....

Celebrities are cashing in on their fame by designing clothes, concocting fragrances, writing books and creating fine art. For those shopping for the celebrity obsessed, it has never been easier. Anderson's Bookshop in Downers Grove and Naperville...

In the back pages of the press notes for the Coen brothers' "A Serious Man," where filmmakers always tell you how environmentally sensitive they've been in the course of making the movie, we learn that "No Jews were harmed in......

If you call yourself a music fan and you've not taken a pilgrimage over to Wolfgang's Vault, then make a move, stat, hippie! The sprawling website is a veritable treasure trove of classic rock concerts, many from the archive of the late, great San...

Every so often, "Idol" chroniclers are allowed -- nay, required -- to channel their inner Simon. Mr. Cowell is the show's governing spirit, the voice of commercially savvy reason and Top 40-besotted prejudice. What he loves is often cheesy, what he thinks...

If Criss Angel were blindfolded, straitjacketed, run over by a steamroller, locked in a steel box and dumped from a helicopter into the Pacific Ocean, he still might be easier to salvage from disaster than "Criss Angel: Believe," the gloomy, gothic muddle...

Sly Stone, the Howard Hughes of the Woodstock scene, rolled up on a hulking three-wheel custom chopper painted the color of lemons. His straggly hair was tucked up beneath an ebony San Francisco Giants baseball cap with sparkly silver threading and draped...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.—They like to call this 42-mile expanse of Atlantic beachfront the Grand Strand, an appellation that makes Myrtle Beach sound sedate, proper, Victorian. Parts of it are anything but. The '70s metal band KISS has opened a coffee...