Music - Dec. 11, 2007
Stocking stuffers for music geeks
If the music fiend in your life needs a stocking stuff, here are two very different options.
Tags: Blue Note, Bob Blumenthal, Handsome Dick Manitoba, Amy Wallace, Hal Leonard, The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists, Rudy Van Gelder, jazz

Music - Aug. 2, 2007
Beatles trivia for die-hards
If you're a Beatles fan, there are 500 pages of this stuff, which can be fascinating. If you're not a dedicated JPGR fanatic, you might just toss it aside and huff, "get a life!"
Tags: Beatles, Hal Leonard, trivia, Ringo

Music - March 10, 2007
Blaney compares Lennon and McCartney
British art historian and technology museum curator John Blaney has set his sights on tracing and comparing the trajectories of Lennon and McCartney's careers outside the Beatles and his observations are collected in "Lennon and McCartney: Together Alone, A critical discography of their solo work."
Tags: Lennon, McCartney, Beatles, Blaney, Together Alone, Hal Leonard, Jawbone, Fab Four, Yoko

Music - Jan. 16, 2006
Award-winning jazz singer Sutton returns home
Six CDs into her career, jazz singer Tierney Sutton, a Milwaukee area native, is finally coming home. JazzWeek magazine named Sutton "Vocalist of the Year" for 2005 and we recently asked her about her Wisconsin origins and her music.
Tags: Tierney Sutton, Pabst, Hal Leonard, Toots Thielemans, Figueroa, Clayton-Hamilton, jazz

Music - April 7, 2005
Despite impressive resume, Stetina lacks name recognition at home
For nearly 20 years, Stetina, an astonishingly skilled hard rock/metal guitarist, has been working in Milwaukee. But, he's hardly a household name here.
Tags: Stetina, Tremonti, Oversoulss, Hal Leonard, metal, Conservatory, Alter bridge, creed