Sometimes before a big name musician makes it, they have to pay their dues. These are three icons who sang backup before making it big.

This week’s top San Diego concert picks include Stick Men at the Bornemann Theater, Tower of Power at The Magnolia, Ángela ...

The Proper Way’s “In the Air Tonight,” Mel Soul and the Heartbeat’s “…Baby One More Time,” Living in Fiction’s “Heat Waves.

He spent 12-hour days learning at GIT in the shred era. But for his Strat-led solo showcase, Deml relied mainly on his ears ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are “Midwinter Revels,” the “Solstice” light experience, ...

The resulting album, Squeeze, sounds less like The Velvet Underground and more like a rushed, third-rate pub-rock project. It was a commercial and critical failure that completely muddied the ...

A self-taught session man extraordinaire, he played with a constellation of stars, including Michael Jackson, Curtis Mayfield, Chaka Khan and Dizzy Gillespie.

Phil X currently plays lead guitar in Bon Jovi and replaced original guitarist Richie Sambora back in 2016. He played with ...