It’s Week Three of recording for Modern Baseball at their Philadelphia studio, and singer/guitarist Brendan Lukens is pissing off the rest of his band. He’s in the booth, laying down vocals for an ...

Swing band music will always be cool. An inability to see its coolness is, well, not very cool. In this writer’s opinion, it’s still one of the hippest things around, a style of music that literally ...

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. And swing is coming to Naperville with the Julian Bliss Septet. The ’30s and ’40s-era swing band performs “A Tribute to Benny Goodman” at 8 p.m.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Straight-ahead swing, the kind of classic jazz that's an old friend to many, fills the Friday, Oct. 17, Just Friends concert that kicks off Purdue University Bands' jazz season.

The Mountain Arts Community Center will present a night of swinging jazz with the Uptown Big Band, the Tennessee Valley’s leading modern big band on Nov. 19. With 17 veteran instrumentalists and two ...

Three women — modern, creative, and talented — are stretching the boundaries of old-time country and western swing music. The best part? They are doing it steadfastly, free of frivolous fanfare. We’re ...

Most people wouldn’t watch live shows in Las Vegas and think, “How do I bring a Vegas-style show to LA that's over the top for big band swing — with dancing and tight vocal harmonics?” Well, that’s ...

It wasn’t long after the invention of rock ’n’ roll that artists started making their own styles of rock, including the reverb-heavy surf rock, made most popular by Dick Dale and later, the Beach Boys ...