She was driving a car at 11, married (for the first of 8 times) by 14 and joined her brother Jerry Lee Lewis on tour as a teen. She flirted with ‘60s pop stard...
Navigating the terrain between pub rock and punk rock, Parker and his red-hot band The Rumour, with Nick Lowe at the controls, cooked up an intoxicating stew of...
Sonny Curtis grew up with Buddy Holly, played in the Crickets and shaped the future of rock & roll. Then he just never stopped working, as part of the ...
Gary Lewis, Jerry Lewis' son, learned the tricks of the sticks from Buddy Rich, grew up around the corner from the Beverly Hillbillies’ set, cut his teeth on ro...
Don Fleming, rock musician (Gumball, Dinosaur Jr, Velvet Monkeys) and producer (Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, Hole, Alice Cooper, Dictators, Joan Jett, Richard ...
Ramones Tour Manager Monte A. Melnick on the fights, the insanity, and the passions!
The Ramones formed in March of 1974 and broke up in August of 1996 and Mon...
As a solo artist, a collaborator with husband Wreckless Eric and with her trio The Shams, singer-songwriter Amy Rigby has always written from the heart
Amy Rig...
At 82, the Rockabilly Hall of Fame drummer and singer has released a new album, Matt Gets Blue, with help from James Burton and Charley Musselwhite. Michael She...
P.F. Sloan was a great songwriter known for hits like "Eve of Destruction" and "Secret Agent Man”. In a 3-year period, he wrote 30 chart records and recorded 25...
Michael Shelley has been cracking wise, spinning genre defying records and interviewing music makers on WFMU since 1992. Check wfmu.org/michael for his radio show’s archives containing hundreds of interviews. Like everyone in America, he also plays in a band and writes songs.
