Author Alan Sculley

Train // Play That Song Tour Pat Monahan knows pop music remains a young person’s game. As the frontman of Train for 20 years-plus, he faces that reality with every new album as he lobbies pop radio to...

Seether//Poison the Parish Shaun Morgan, frontman of Seether, sounds more content, enthused – and maybe even self-assured -- than at any time since the early years of his group’s 15-year recording...

NEEDTOBREATHE// Success and the challenges that come with it Success, obviously, has its perks. But it also brings a few challenges. Needtobreathe discovered that firsthand in touring its 2014 album,...

Dawes // “An Evening With Dawes” Over the course of four previous albums, Dawes has often been typecast as a folk-rock band in the Laurel Canyon tradition of the Eagles or Jackson...

Bon Jovi // “The House Is Not For Sale” Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan was asked during a recent teleconference interview what advice he’d offer to his younger self if he was starting out in the...

Sara Watkins // “Young In All The Wrong Ways” Sara Watkins is best known for her work in Nickel Creek, the bluegrass trio she co-founded as a teenager. But you won’t hear bluegrass or much of her...

Greensky Bluegrass // THE "M" WORD Maturity is a term some musicians prefer not to see associated with themselves or their bands. After all, music is considered a young person’s game and youthful...

Aaron Lewis // Sinner Aaron Lewis encountered his share of naysayers when he first dipped his toes into country music with his 2011 EP, “Town Line.” As the lead singer of Staind, Lewis was a star on the...

St. Paul and the Broken Bones // Sea of Noise Paul Janeway, lead singer of St. Paul and the Broken Bones, suggests that his band could have followed up their acclaimed debut album, “Half The City” in...

Dierks Bentley // A MORE TEXTURED SOUND For Dierks Bentley, it hasn’t mattered whether he was playing bars early in his music career, opening an arena show for a country superstar like George...