Rockabilly News

By Joanie Cox Metromix Betty Bangs bathing suits are all about sun, sand and giving props to your favorite band.

Rockabilly-punk rockers the Trip Daddys perform this weekend as one of the headliners of the RFT Music Showcase, 1 p.m. to midnight Sunday throughout the Delmar Loop.

Mention Bo Diddley's name and most everyone thinks one thing -- the beat. Bomp ba-bomp-ba-bomp, bomp bomp.

A sharp snare, a hiccupping vocal, a slapped, stand-up bass and a twanging guitar will always be welcome in Texas, especially when those sounds are played by one of the most important names in heavy metal history.

Iowa might be known as the place 'where the music died,' but former lead singer of the post Buddy Holly Crickets Jerry Naylor is keeping it alive with the launch of his Rockabilly Legends concert tour.

IT'S not long until the seaside town of Whitby once again plays host to the black-clad visitors from far and wide.

It wasn't a rhetorical question, but it may as well have been. "How many of you guys are drinkin'?" asked the frontman for hard swingin' Vegas rock 'n' roll throwbacks Will & the High Rollers in between sips of tequila at The Orleans last Thursday night.

Audio for today's show will be available at approx. 12:00 p.m. ET. Courtesy of the artist The Grand Lady of Rock 'n' Roll will be inducted alongside Spooner Oldham, Run-D.M.C., Bobby Womack and more at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

On a small corner stage at Chopper John's, Marco Polo's getting ready to perform with his Mexican psychobilly trio, Curse of the Pink Hearse.

Greasers: Old Time Rock n'Roll in Denver Culture in Denver can sometimes seem a little ordinary-you have suburban do-gooders, urban city kids, homeless people , and then, Rockabillies and Greasers.

On a cold weekend in February , I hopped a plane to Oslo, Norway to check out their By:Larm festival , which surveys the current landscape of Scandinavian bands, from Danish electro-rock to Swedish pop, from ...

Tristan Risk says, despite Facebook-photo evidence to the contrary, she's "not much of a party girl.

Rockabilly singer-songwriter Wanda Jackson will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April, joining ?all of my buddies,? including Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Brenda Lee.

Rockabilly singer-songwriter Wanda Jackson will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April, joining ?all of my buddies,? including Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Brenda Lee.

Hilary Alexander reports from the London College of Fashion's Postgraduate show.

ARDMORE, Okla. a * An independent film made right here in Texomaa *by Texomansa * deals with a period of time that many of us these days might be unfamiliar with.

Robert Gordon: The rockabilly vocalist led a revival of '50s rock 'n' roll sounds more than 20 years ago.

"Rock 'n' roll will never die" -- so said Danny and the Juniors and Neil Young, peering at each other from either side of the '60s. Ogden rocker Hal "Holiday" Schneider is living proof of that.

If you go WHO: The Dex Romweber Duo, with opening act The Left Behind WHERE: Sal's Italian Grille and Pizzeria WHEN: 8 p.m. Friday HOW MUCH: No cover CONTACT: 799-2341 Dexter Romweber had been misunderstood.

If their debut album, ' ' was an incarnation of late 70s feral punk and a battle-cry for youthful exuberance, then this follow up by the cutting Californian based Orange , represents a mature reflection upon ...