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The 50-year-old heavy rock group performs the final concert of its "End of the Road" tour Saturday in New York. But it's said farewell before.

One of the region's oldest cultural organizations is celebrating its Centennial Year. The Buffalo Silver Band has been entertaining local audiences for…

Bands that play South By Southwest in Austin get paid $250 while organizers make profits. Musicians are speaking out about needing more money as exposure at the festival is no longer as lucrative.

A stunt, a joke or a big lie? There was nothing special in the story behind the New Jersey-based band Delicate Steve. A press release used to promote the band, on the other hand, was something altogether more fantastic.

Steve Harwell, the former lead singer of Smash Mouth has died at the age of 56. The cause of death was acute liver failure, according to the band's manager.

After spending a year sailing up the Eastern Seaboard, Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore felt inspired to turn their stories into songs.

The first shovels to dig the Erie Canal went into the ground on July 4th, 1817. When it was completed in 1825, the canal transformed the nation’s...

A roadkill unicorn, a family of greedy pharmaceutical moguls, and an innocent teenager are the main ingredients in A24's new grisly horror comedy Death of a Unicorn.

Trumpeter "Red Mike" Acampora died recently at the age of 91. He was the leader of one of New York's oldest Italian marching bands. The band's tradition of playing at funerals continued despite the erosion of Little Italy. This segment was produced for Sound Portraits by Piya Kochhar.

Conrad Johnson made his Kashmere High School Stage Band a national phenomenon — not just at band competitions, but in the world of commercial popular music. The recordings he made of the band continue to influence musicians to this day, and are being re-released.