In 1967, McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc established the McDonald’s All-American High School Band to recognize some of the nation’s most accomplished young instrumentalists. Each year until 1992, 105 high school students—including two from each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as one from Puerto Rico …

Photo by Trevor Naud Welcome to “Milo Minute,” the 60 seconds (or so) you need to find a local show or festival to attend this weekend. And we mean “local”. Longtime Detroit music journalist Jeff Milo has been tuning in to the Detroit scene for years with his prolific blog …

Good music is the drug of life. This is what we rely on to forget the unhappy moments in our life, if only for a moment. If you go back to the very beginning, Chinese rock rock shined in 1986, when Chinese rock icon Cui Jian made his debut at …

Most of us grew up idolizing one rock band or another. We hung their pictures in our rooms, lined up to buy their albums and concert tickets, and tried to learn the guitar or other musical instrument to cover their songs in our makeshift studios. They inspired us to form …

As one of the founding members, singer, lead guitarist and author of most of Grand Funk Railroad’s music catalog, Mark Farner has always been known as the energetic driving force behind the scene. In a sense, it’s known as the engine that propelled the original Grand Funk Railroad to the …