Here are a few things on our radar this year on the St. Louis arts and entertainment scene. Also catch "Chicken and Biscuit" at the Black Rep and a Nirvana tirbute band at City Winery. St. Louis ...

Sara Stafford is good with newborns. She's also good with a guitar, dulcimer, mandolin, ukulele, bass and vocals. And she's good with a sheet of music-composition paper. In fact, she's taking off ...

Stephen Wilson Jr., a hard-to-label country artist, can’t help but look at songs from a scientific view, having spent several ...

John Mellencamp and plenty of other artists. (Last August, Danny Freedman reported a great Times piece that captured Sun Studio’s busy dual life: “By Day, Sun Studio Draws Tourists.

Imagine a 23-year-old with the temerity to write the line “I was so much older then / I’m younger than that now” and singing it ... opener John Mellencamp played longer than he was supposed ...

John Mellencamp and Me’Shell Ndegeocello ... as if the two of them were in love, singing to each other in the studio.” Generations of listeners have since been swept up by “Ain’t ...

The events of last night come flooding back. The loneliness. The whiskey. John Cougar Mellencamp singing “Jack & Diane.” The frigid shower. Daniel handed me over to my mother. Her anger and ...

Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself ... as he had at Madison Square Garden with Springsteen, Baez, and [John] Mellencamp. [USA Today] Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and ...

Today in Music History for Feb. 7: ...

Toby Myers, longtime bassist for John Mellencamp and the Todd Rundgren -discovered band Roadmaster, died on Jan. 16 at age 75 ...

Toby Myers, the celebrated bass player for John ‘Cougar’ Mellencamp and Roadmaster, has died at the age of 75.