When Will Forte started playing the Jersey Shore in the late 1970s, cover bands were thought of as a stop along the way to something else. You played other people’s songs. You worked the bars. You ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's a good time to be a cover band at the Jersey Shore. “All the bands have great camaraderie, and it’s great scene,” said Thomas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shane T. Golden is the lead singer of The Prince Project, a Prince and the Revolution tribute band. Golden is a Cleveland-area ...

John Ricotta, of Lindenhurst, spends his days working in magazine publishing but at night he dons a curly black wig, sunglasses, leather jacket and top hat to transform into Guns N’ Roses guitarist ...

COLUMBIA — Jay Matheson was excited to talk about tribute bands. “I’m not sure how you’re going to condense this into one article,” the owner of Jam Room Recording Studio, founder of Jam Room Music ...

Just when you thought the 1980s were over, these 1990s bands brought the music of the decade back for another round. At times, the desire for a '90s band to turn the clock back 10 or so years has been ...

MARYSVILLE — After the last bell, Dee Lawless swaps her cardigan for a sequin-studded blazer and stows her saxophone in the backseat of her car. By nightfall, she’s onstage at the Marysville Opera ...

Some songs are so good, they deserve to be reimagined with the volume cranked up to eleven! Join us as we count down our ...

Cover band can be pejorative. Tribute act puts a nice shine on the label, but it still can have a negative vibe to some. But musicians concentrating on other artists’ work can actually move a genre ...

It's a good time to be a cover band at the Jersey Shore. “All the bands have great camaraderie, and it’s great scene,” said Thomas Jannarone, co-owner of Bar Anticipation in Lake Como and a member of ...