This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. When the influential punk band Fear formed in the late 1970s in the San ...

There's not a huge need to embellish with this music. It's driven by the beauty of the melodies and good, danceable rhythms. “There’s not a huge need to embellish with this music,” the leader says of ...

If you happen upon Jamesie and the All-Stars at the Lotus festival and you can\'t quite put your finger on the musical style, there\'s a good reason for that.It\'s called "scratch" or "quelbe," and if ...

The Virgin Islands’ very own king of scratch, James “Jamesie” Brewster, lives on through hours of footage of interviews, performances and scenes of his everyday life, now available to watch for free ...

There several interesting features that single out saxophonist Ron Blake's new recording with what he refers to as his SCRATCH Band. First, the Puerto Rican-born Blake, best known for his work on ...

W eek in and week out, the musical glue that holds “Saturday Night Live” together is the second most successful musician to come out of the Connecticut bar band scene. The blond mane of G.E. Smith and ...