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Michael Ward, former guitarist for the Wallflowers and School Of Fish, has died. He passed away on Monday April 1 due to complications from diabetes. He was 57.

The day I got my second Pfizer shot, I went to the grocery store to pick up some celebratory beers. The song playing at Kroger that day was “One Headlight,” the biggest hit off of the Wallflowers’ 1996 debut album Bringing Down The Horse. For whatever reason, this triggered some faux-profound existential reflections...

Twenty years ago this Saturday, Pete Yorn released his debut album, musicforthemorningafter. Do you remember that album? The singles are fire. The deep cuts are solid. Inspired by power-pop acts like Sloan and in step with metropolitan roots-rockers like Ryan Adams, Yorn put together a sleek collection of radio-friendly rockers with a slight twa...

This past weekend, the CBGB Festival — which couldn’t possibly have less to do with the grimy, legendary, shut-down New York club that gave it its name — came to New York’s Times Square, bringing an impressive-if-weird lineup that included My Morning Jacket, Grizzly Bear, Divine Fits, the Wallflowers, Lisa...