To Oakland musician Chuck Johnson, a graduate degree in electronic music and a homespun acoustic guitar style are perfectly compatible: “What appealed to me about electronic music — that’s something I ...

If the Bellevederes isn’t Baltimore’s best soul/R&B band — and it just might be — it’s certainly the biggest. There are 10 people in all, including a horn section and a hype man known as Velvet ...

In honor of Betsey Johnson’s 81st birthday, which was on Aug. 10, I present the unknown story of her wedding to the Velvet Underground’s John Cale in 1968 at NYC’s City Hall, which is considered by ...