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1 month ago | 
rockandrollglobe.com | Katherine Yeske Taylor
In 2024, the long-running rock band REO Speedwagon called it quits, the victim of irreconcilable differences between vocalist, pianist and guitarist Kevin Cronin and other members. But Cronin has reemerged with his own group, the Kevin Cronin Band, and they’re set to go on an extensive tour with Styx from late May through August. “I can tell you this: a Kevin Cronin Band show looks a lot like an REO Speedwagon show,” says Cronin, calling from his home in Thousand Oaks, California.
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2 months ago | 
americansongwriter.com | Katherine Yeske Taylor
Some people exude such innate charisma that others seem inexorably drawn to them—and Peter Wolf certainly seems to have that particular gift, as evidenced by his remarkable memoir, Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses (out March 11 via Little, Brown and Company). Long before he became acclaimed as the frontman for the J.
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Mar 27, 2025 | 
americansongwriter.com | Katherine Yeske Taylor
“I don’t really know how else to regard it, except that some energy force in the universe pulled the four of us together to write pop music for the particular moment that we were there doing it,” says vocalist/lyricist Michael Stipe, reflecting on his time with the alternative rock band R.E.M. “We had our day in the sun, and it was amazing.”During a three-decade run, R.E.M. became one of the world’s best-selling bands.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
americansongwriter.com | Katherine Yeske Taylor
On a sunny afternoon in April, renowned alt-folk singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco is sitting at a table in the front window of Westville, a popular restaurant in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City, eating a cup of chicken noodle soup. This sparse meal is necessary because, in just a couple hours, she was set to be onstage in the hit Broadway show Hadestown, in which she starred as Persephone.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
americansongwriter.com | Katherine Yeske Taylor
“Most of the time, I’d like to be working on new stuff—but occasionally, it’s good to take stock of what you have done and put it all in order,” says Bryan Ferry, referring to Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023, the 81-song overview of his solo career. During a video call from Ferry’s London recording studio, he looks debonair in a crisp olive green button-down shirt, his salt-and-pepper hair elegantly swept back. He smiles easily and often, seeming utterly at ease. And why not?
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
americansongwriter.com | Katherine Yeske Taylor
Relaxing in a velvet armchair in the living room of a villa on the grounds of the luxurious Sunset Marquis hotel in West Hollywood, California, Ringo Starr’s laid-back friendliness makes him the personification of the “peace and love” mantra that he frequently professes. Ever since a meteoric rise to stardom in the 1960s as a member of the Beatles, Starr has been the most famous drummer the world has ever known, which makes it a bit daunting to interview him.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
americansongwriter.com | Katherine Yeske Taylor
Many artists release live albums—but very few of those albums have been recorded within the confines of a prison. That is precisely what acclaimed singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge has done with her release, I’m Not Broken (Live from Topeka Correctional Facility), released July 12.. Making an album like this has been a goal that Etheridge set when she was growing up in Leavenworth, Kansas, a town that she notes has five prisons within twenty miles of it.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
americansongwriter.com | Katherine Yeske Taylor
By many measures, Imagine Dragons are one of the biggest bands in the world: they’ve accumulated more than 160 billion song streams, and sold 65 million digital songs. They hold the record for the most billion-streamed songs—10 of them—on Spotify. They have four RIAA Diamond singles—songs that have achieved at least ten times-platinum sales (for “Radioactive,” “Believer,” “Thunder,” and “Demons”).
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
rockandrollglobe.com | Katherine Taylor |Katherine Yeske Taylor
For the past five decades, Andy Summers has been one of the most recognizable and respected guitarists in the world because of his distinctive work with The Police. With that band, he created massive international hit singles such as “Roxanne,” “Don’t Stand So Close to Me,” “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic,” “Every Breath You Take,” “King of Pain,” and many, many more.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
americansongwriter.com | Katherine Yeske Taylor
The acclaimed singer-songwriter’s new live album (and docuseries) chronicles her moving performance at a Kansas women’s prison“Music goes straight into the soul first, and so I knew that as a vehicle, it can be very healing,” says acclaimed singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge. She proves this with her latest album, I’m Not Broken (Live from Topeka Correctional Facility), which is set for release on July 9 via Sun Records.
