The duo has been a favorite at the annual Backyard Country BBQ and Northern Lights Country Series — they wrote their radio hit “Backyard Family Barbeque” in an Anchorage hotel room — and now Elvis Monroe is bringing a full band back.
Ranging from rock to rap and political response, there are also new recordings out from the Alaska Independent Musicians Initiative and Parker Longbough and a Mr. Whitekeys retrospective DVD.
It was only about five years ago that Boyd was “virtually homeless” and trying to make ends meet singing demos Nashville. Then he got the call to audition for NBC’s singing competition, “The Voice.”
We Banjo 3 blends Celtic and American folk music. They’ll perform in Fairbanks, Anchorage and Valdez this week.
While most 19-year-olds were sneaking into bars for the booze, Hauser was slipping into Blues Central to play in Sunday night jam sessions. After a long detour, he’s back in Anchorage and working on an EP.
The 75-year-old was found in bed by his supermodel wife, Paulina Porizkova, police sources said.
He announced his cancer diagnosis via a video last month from his AXS TV reality series “Real Money.”
Travel by dogsled, snowmachine or small boat can damage expensive wooden instruments. The Sitka Music Festival found a solution.
Staying humble isn’t hard for Swindell, who spent three years selling T-shirts on tours with Luke Bryan and every bit of his free time honing his songwriting craft.
All-star group playing Bear Tooth’s September First Tap show exists “where funk meets rock."
There’s country, rock 'n' roll and comedy coming to the Borealis Theatre at the Palmer Fairgrounds from Aug. 22-Sept. 2.
“I’m not interested in the public coming up to my home, people snooping, walking up to my windows,” Brown told the Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Commission.
At 78, Domingo still attracts sellout crowds around the globe. But his accusers and others in the industry say there is a troubling side to Domingo — one they say has long been an open secret in the opera world.
The ninth annual Salmonfest takes place Aug. 2-4, with 65 groups performing on four stages at the Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds.
Jerrod Niemann is a platinum-selling country artist with No. 1 hits “Lover, Lover” and “Drink to That All Night” among a slew of other top 40 songs.
Here are some of the best and most interesting new releases of the year, as well as some of the shows for Alaska music fans to consider this summer.
The allure of summertime Alaska -- specifically, world-class fishing -- plays a big role in the success of the annual country music event, according to promoter Brad Erickson and singer-songwriter Kendell Marvel.
Quinn Christopherson, along with guitarist Nick Carpenter, will visit Seattle, Austin, L.A. and New York on a tour with NPR Music.
A white man who found a home among black New Orleans musicians, Mac Rebennack first entered the music scene when he accompanied his father, who ran a record shop and also fixed the P.A. systems at New Orleans bars.
An Alaska program that uses music by state artists as background songs for callers on hold has cut songs.
