When Alvin Ailey's seminal dance work Revelations was first performed in 1960, it was about twice as long as the version that's now been seen by millions of people around the world. The company that ...

As one of the leaders of the Los Angeles band The Blasters, Dave Alvin was a driving force in the then-insurgent roots-rock movement. In the case of The Blasters, "roots" referred to the earliest days ...

Dave Alvin didn’t set out to write an Independence Day song when he started recounting a day in his life on paper 40 some years ago. He wasn’t even writing a song. But, years after he took out the pen ...