OneRepublic OneRepublic Living Their Dreams Out Loud by Jay S. Jacobs You know that you’ve heard it. Topping the charts and all over the...

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS NOT FAKING IT by Jay S. Jacobs You may have thought that you were catching something...

Jerry Wexler Jerry Wexler The Man Behind Rhythm and Blues by Ronald Sklar The bookends of Jerry Wexler’s life are predictable and...

Ed Quinn Ed Quinn The Road to Eureka by Jay S. Jacobs Brilliant scientist.  Guitar hero.  Adventurer.  Professor’s son.  Sci-Fi icon. ...

Chantal Kreviazuk CHANTAL KREVIAZUK ALL SHE CAN DO by Jay S. Jacobs The world at large has never quite caught on to Chantal Kreviazuk’s...

Matt White Matt White Best Days… and Getting Even Better by Ronald Sklar How’s this for destiny’s child? At five-years-old, Matt White...

Air Guitar Nation AIR GUITAR NATION (2007) Featuring David “C. Diddy” Jung, Dan “Björn Türoque” Crane, Hadia “Jam Toast” Ackerman, Lance...

Emmy Rossum Emmy Rossum Can’t Slow Her Down by Jay S. Jacobs When you’ve spent most of your life working to make a name in one field, it...

PlayRadioPlay at the Trocadero in Philadelphia. PlayRadioPlay! Breaking Through the Confines By Abraham Kuranga Growing up in Aledo,...

Geddy Lee of Rush in concert. Geddy Lee of Rush Making Music by Marcie Somers Geddy Lee, the legendary frontman of Canadian band Rush,...

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Tyrone Wells – Hold On Tyrone Wells-Hold On (Universal Republic) Effortlessly combining pop, soul, folk and rock, Tyrone Wells has...

Tyrone Wells at World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, in 2007. Photo © 2007 Jay S. Jacobs. All rights reserved. Tyrone Wells What He’s Fighting...

Pauley Perrette in “NCIS.” Pauley Perrette NCIS Punk by Jay S. Jacobs When you think of scientists in the Naval police corps, do you...

Tommy Shaw playing at the TLA in Philadelphia TOMMY SHAW UNDER THE INFLUENCE by Jay S. Jacobs Tommy Shaw was the lead guitarist and...

Jet JET SHINING STARS by Jay S. Jacobs Aussie rockers Jet exploded onto the music scene with the hit single “Are You Gonna Be My Girl?”...

Taylor Hicks Blue-Eyed Soul Man by Jay S. Jacobs There aren’t too many people in the world who were in any way helped by Hurricane...

Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party Premiere Episode 12/18/78 The Time & Make-Up Show 8/19/79 The Halloween Show 10/31/79...

John Stamos New Kid in ER by Deborah Wagner For John Stamos, a two-episode gig on ER last season has turned into somewhat of a re-birth...

Josh Kelley Josh Kelley Life in the Pop Game by Jay S. Jacobs Back in its heyday, lots of musicians had a problem with the peer-to-peer...