It was a night all about musicians making real music, about real bands with real instruments conjuring up that kind of magic musical spirit only real bands can create. Crystallized by a exultant tribute to an absent friend, The Band’s Levon Helm, led by Elton John, Zac Brown and Mavis Staples, it was also a [...]

When you hear fun.’s frontman Nate Ruess split the word “fire” into three booming syllables on the band’s hit seize-the-night anthem “We Are Young,” it’s hard to imagine that, long before the song made its way to the TV choir of Glee, Ruess’ friends were telling him that he just couldn’t sing. And not to [...]