Phantom Blues Band Toplines 2017 Ventura County Blues Fest
The 12th Annual Ventura County Blues Festival, headlined by the Grammy-winning Phantom Blues Band, throws down at Studio Channel Islands in Camarillo, California, on Saturday, April...
Wild Honey Orchestra All-Star Autism Benefit Rocks The Band
The Wild Honey Orchestra and an all-star lineup of guest performers including Jackson Browne, Peter Case and Victoria Williams are set to perform classic...
UPDATED: Jack Mack Rhythm & Blues Revue Rips Up Canyon Club
Jack Mack Review by Stephen K. Peeples
Updated to include exclusive interview with Jack Mack co-founder and guitarist Andrew Kastner
The soul-stirring Jack Mack & The...
Lone Star Beer: Texas Music and Texas Beer Join Forces (1976)
The Backstory: In late 1975, Lone Star Brewing Co. marketing executives Jerry Retzloff and Barry Sullivan spoke with this reporter at length about the...
Willie Nelson, Lone Star Jerry Retzloff & The Texas Music Conspiracy
Former Lone Star Brewing Co. district sales manager Jerry Retzloff flashed back half a lifetime to Austin and the Texas music scene in the...
Armadillo Rising – Wittliff Collection Rocks 1970s Austin Music Scene
Bill Wittliff and The Wittliff Collections' "Armadillo Rising: Austin's Music Scene in the 1970s" event attracted a standing-room-only audience of Texas music and pop...
Hard Six ‘Behind the Lens’ Rocks with Stephen K. Peeples
Ventura's outlaw punkabilly trio Hard Six launched "Behind the Lens," an exhibit of 19 photos of the band shot by 10 Southern California photographers,...
Tommy Allsup on Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Bob Wills, Texas Playboys
Guitarist-producer Tommy Allsup, best-known as a member of The Crickets led by songwriter-singer-guitarist Buddy Holly, died in Springfield, Missouri on January 12, 2017, at the age...
Del Shannon on Tom Petty, ‘Drop Down and Get Me’
Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame member Del Shannon of "Runaway," "Hats Off to Larry" and "Little Town Flirt" renown in the early '60s...
Klaatu Interview with Stephen K. Peeples – May 1980
Editor's note: This transcript of a May 1980 Klaatu interview with music journalist and Capitol Records Editorial Manager Stephen K. Peeples was first posted...