Drums are clashing. Electric guitars are riffing. Voices are belting with vibrato. Music radiates throughout the Cats Den into the halls of the Gatton Student Center at the University of Kentucky. The...

With every December, along comes the excitement of the long-awaited Spotify Wrapped, an annual summary of the favorite music genres, artists, albums and more every Spotify user consumed that year. To...

Every April, thousands of people crowd around the festival’s performance stages to dance, camp out and experience the beauty of live music at Coachella. With every year, a new line up comes out and...

A gray, single-story building lined with wide windows sits at 377 South Limestone.  Since it was built in 1986, this building has been a second home for music lovers, serving Lexington’s music...

“Forever Is a Feeling,” but this feeling wasn’t one that lasted for me. Lucy Dacus, the American singer and songwriter known for being a member of the band “Boygenius,” released her newest...

The 250Lex Music Series: Dawning of Music in Kentucky event is celebrating the 250th anniversary of Lexington, Kentucky. The event showcased the music of Anthony Philip Heinrich and featured the Transylvania...

In 1995, Steve Baron sat at his desk job in the University of Kentucky’s media relations department, but his mind was elsewhere. He was dreaming of something more, something hands on, something entrepreneurial.  He...

I was on a high school choir trip to Nashville, Tennessee, and part of our itinerary was watching a country concert at the Grand Ole Opry. Having never been a fan of country music, I felt indifferent about...

The University of Kentucky boomwhacker club, known as the BOOMCats, hosted their 2024 fall performance at the Cornerstone ESports Lounge. The BOOMCats performed many songs at their semesterly performance,...

“Tragedy has befallen a national monument; a treasure of the musical world is nothing to you but ambiance!” I dramatically, if a bit sarcastically, exclaim to my girlfriend.  Mere seconds earlier,...

Sparky and Rhonda Rucker, “old friends” of the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music, made an appearance as a part of the “Appalachia in the Bluegrass” concert series.  The series of 12...

If you’re anything like me, music consumes your life. Specific songs elicit certain memories and invoke particular feelings, and things like the weather or my mood can determine what’s on my Spotify...