It’s hard to believe this London singer’s not old enough to buy herself a celebratory bottle of champagne on her first U.S. tour.

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Five decades after their TV debut, The Monkees are on the road with a multimedia tour featuring footage from the 1966 television series. The performances are heavy on banjos, ponchos and memories of Hollywood plot lines (plus: guitarist Mike Nesmith and singer Davy Jones – who died in 2012 – aren’t part of the festivities). Yet, in spite of the stage antics and film clips, the show makes it clear that a band invented by screenwriters now has a real rock and roll legacy to def

Jimmy Carter, Bono and Nile Rodgers made for a surprising trio of revelers at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom last Friday night. On the red carpet before Rodgers’s April 29 charity fundraiser, the three men mugged for the cameras as if they were BFFs. (Later in the evening, U2 frontman Bono danced on a table inside the restored 110-year-old theatre.) The celeb-filled event wasn’t as wild as the Studio 54 parties about which Rodgers, 63, and his band Chic sang on their 1978 di

1981 seems like just yesterday. Remember roller skating with your friends to Prince’s song “Controversy”? Fast forward 35 years, and it’s likely you and those same friends have spent the past few months crying to Natalie Cole videos, walking in somber costume parades in remembrance of David Bowie, holding up cigarette lighters and beer koozies for The Eagles’ Glenn Frey, raising fists in the air for Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, revisiting “Boogie Wonderland” on the car stereo

In the America song, “Tin Man,” folk rhythms sweep into jazz harmonies and arpeggiated piano riffs. Listening to that recording is like riding in a convertible sportscar on a late spring day: it generates its own wind to carry us away. How about the images of barstools conjured by the whiskey-drenched piano intro to the Little River Band’s ballad, “Take It Easy On Me“? Or the bubbling counterpoint beneath the kooky minor-key synthesizer solo in Ultravox’s “Hymn“? What of Cil

Atlanta’s Bowie Parade, in honor of David Bowie, who died January 10, 2016. Photo by Kristi York Wooten #Atlanta #DavidBowie #featured #RECENT

Artists in the Quad Cities of Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia, Sheffield and Florence — all along the Tennessee River — suppose it’s something in the water that spins a musical thread through their flourishing creative communities. A bit of this magic rubbed off on designer Natalie Chanin, a native of Florence who got a huge boost in her career when she was nominated for the Council of Fashion Designers of America / Vogue Fashion Fund in 2009 after creating a clothing collection inf