The South has a culture of its own. Few Southerners would not proudly claim the gems of their region, whether it is barbeque, good music or hospitality. Many of these things have become symbols of the...

The sounds of strings and sweet bluegrass music are coming to the stage in Tuscaloosa tonight as the Bama Theatre downtown hosts bluegrass legend Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver with folksy “newgrass”...

Robert Christgau says Patterson Hood can’t sing. How would Christgau, most eminent of first-generation rock critics, react to the bending nasal drawl of a Dexateens harmony? He would like it anyway....

Most musicians release a record with the help of an investment, a producer and a lot of money. Singer/songwriter Dylan Sneed is taking a different approach. A grassroots effort, his new album “Texodus”...

After three agonizing years of wait, the Canadian-American group The Arcade Fire has finally brought a new record to the world, titled “The Suburbs.” To those unfamiliar with the baroque pop band’s...

Nettie Quill is a Tuscaloosa-based band sweeping across the city and state in the same manner that many of today’s bands do: playing shows at venues in town and preparing to move their sound out of...

While many venues in Tuscaloosa have music as background for drinking and socializing, Acoustic Night at the Bama Theatre provides a different listening experience. “People that come to Acoustic Night...

Almost a year from their first-ever performance at Tuscaloosa’s Hip Hop Summit 2009, the musical group Kadesh and the Perfect Strangers is teaming up with hip hop artist a2z to form The Alphabet Detectives,...