Sixty-something and confined to an electric mobility scooter, the man asking the question at the will-call window of Ashland, Kentucky’s Paramount Arts Center has seen better days. But he gets the ...

Remember a decade ago when full-length mash-ups projects were all the rage? It seems a lot of them were conceived based on a pun — like the Jay-Z/Radiohead mash-up “Jaydiohead” and the Jay-Z/Weezer ...

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Where: Knitting Factory, 919 W. Sprague Ave. Cost:$20 in advance and $25 day of show. Info: (509) 244-3279, www.sp.knittingfactory.com “The Final Battle” sounds like the swan song of an album for ...

I was first introduced to Stryper by the late, great Rob Campo of the New York (and later, L.A.) metal scene back in 1987. I know nothing of Christian metal. In fact, I know almost nothing about ...

What do you get when you have a band that dresses in outfits that resemble a bumble bee, play heavy metal music, but sing lyrics about Jesus? The punchline, at least in the 1980’s, was a band with a ...

Pinned against the doors in a slow-moving Brooklyn-bound 3 train on a recent evening, I found myself resorting to a sure-fire time-killer for what looked to be an interminable ride. Let’s call it ...