Music

THURSDAY, July 24 BIRMINGHAM Luke Bryan, Oak Mountain Amphitheatre Heat Wave, Zydeco Claude Stuart, Comedy Club Stardome Splendid Chaos, Iron Horse Café HUNTSVILLE Heather Luttrell,...

THURSDAY JULY 24 Buck Wild, Rhythm & Brews Motherfunk, Rounders Freshwater Duo , Copper Top Pen Pals, Green Bar To Kill a Mockingbird, Innisfree FRIDAY, JULY 25 Uri, Copper Top Matt Bennett...

July 16th brought America closer to the end of an era. As the years go on, the country loses more and more artists who forged one of the most influential genres of American popular music: blues. Born in...

UMPHREY'S MCGEE RETURNS TO TUSCALOOSA // FROM THE BAMA TO THE AMP It’s an interesting thing when you can quite literally watch an artist grow. Sometimes the ascent is quite rapid. Many in Tuscaloosa can...

ROAD TRIP//SOUTHEASTERN CONCERTS THURSDAY, JUNE 26 BIRMINGHAM George Lopez, Comedy Club Stardome MONTGOMERY The Capitol Sounds Concert Band, The Davis Theater for Performing Arts NEW...

FAN FOLLOWING // PHOTOGRAPHER INSPIRED BY THE BLUES // PW INSPIRED BY THE PHOTOG Staff from the Planet Weekly had the opportunity, recently, to attend a performance of the Debbie Bond Trio in the...

IT MUST HAVE BEEN THOSE TONEY BOYS // A LOCAL BAND RETURNS Where they come from, the Toney Boys have a reputation for mischief. “Growing up, we tended to get in trouble,” Glenn Toney said. “One time...

ROAD TRIP - JUNE 12 – JUNE 26 THURSDAY, JUNE 12 BIRMINGHAM Maggie Rose, Iron Horse Café HUNTSVILLE The Women of Duck Commander, Von Braun Concert Hall Amy McCarley Jet Engines, Straight to Ale...

TUESDAY, JUNE 17 Plato Jones, Coppertop THURSDAY, JUNE 19 Benjamin Hoefling, Green Bar Matt Bennett Trio, Rounders URI, Rhythm & Brews FRIDAY, JUNE 20 Velcro Pygmies, Rhythm &...

JOY DIVISION // THE LITTLE-KNOWN MASTERPIECE In August of 1979 an album was released under the Factory label out of Manchester, England that contained a sound so fresh, so innovative, that at first one...