The Manhattan Beat

As pre-teens, guitarist Brian Setzer , bassist Lee Rocker , and drummer Slim Jim Phantom lived a few blocks from each other in the New Yo...

New York and New Jersey had Rolling Stones fever when the veteran rock and roll band performed two nights at Metlife Stadium in East Ruthe...

Rob Thomas was born into an American military family stationed in Landstuhl, West Germany. The family returned to the United States when...

Sally Can’t Dance presented Stiv Bators, Celebrating the Life of a Dead Boy at the Bowery Electric on July 28, 2019. Michael T. of Micha...

Luke Spiller As a child in Bristol, England, the only music Luke Spiller heard at home was gospel. At age seven he discovered pop music...

Scott Stapp fled his childhood home as a teen in Orlando, Florida, and while attending university in 1993 formed the band Creed with his...

Born in London, England, Declan MacManus was the son of a jazz trumpeter who sang with the Joe Loss Orchestra and who later performed as ...

Sully Erna Sully Erna 's father was a trumpet player and would rehearse in the basement, where the youth would watch and fall asleep...

Vocalist Andrea "Andy" Ferro , born in Arona, Italy, started playing music with multi-instrumentalist Marco “Maki” Coti-Zelati ...

As teenagers, David Alvin and his older brother, Phil Alvin , attended rockabilly and country music concerts in and around their home tow...