Well, it comes down to this, people: A half dozen of the best regional bands decided by your votes; battling it out down in a dark basement on a cold winter day, in downtown Topeka,  with their only  motivation being crowned the best band in the area. Well that, and $1,100.00 in cash and prizes as the Topeka [...]

Emily Hollaway, 15, and Lucas Farmer, 14, have a lot in common. Both are home-schooled. Each plays guitar and takes lessons from Chip Janda at Steam Music. And each was a recipient last year of a $300 Jam4Dan scholarship. And both agree, that without the scholarships, their guitar study would have been interrupted, if not [...]

Whether you’re a fan of classical, blues, jazz, rock, country, or just about any other genre in between, you can find a version of your favorite Christmas song to fill your needs

Ever dream of tearing it up like Jimi Hendrix or shredding like Slash, only to discover your lack of musical ability gets in the way? Then Topeka’s Air Guitar Championship is for you. Eric Melin—AKA Mean Melin, the 2010 Las Vegas U.S. Air Guitar Champ and 2009 KC Regional U.S. Air Guitar Champ—is hosting the [...]

Ever since I was a baby girl wanted one thing most in this world it was to Keep My Love - Keep My Love alive Seattle’s Heart burst onto the music scene in the summer of ’76 with their debut album Dreamboat Annie. Fronted by the Wilson sisters; lead vocalist Ann, demonstrating to us what [...]

Live Music Institute is hosting the fall Academy of Rock, for young rockers between the ages of 10 and 15, culminating with a Halloween concert, October 30th. If you were a patron of Midwestern Music at 17th and Fairlawn during the 80s and 90s and haven’t been in lately, you may be slightly surprised by [...]

Janiva Magness discovered her musical calling at an Otis Rush show which she attended as an underage teenager. She formed her first band in 1985, Janiva Magness and the Mojomatics. She released a series of Indy albums before releasing her major label debut, “What Love Will Do,” on Alligator Records in 2008. With the release [...]

"I’m in a very fortunate situation with my record label where, you know, I got to do everything I wanted to on it. It’s pretty diverse, I hope it takes people on a journey, I hope people can relate to it, I hope it touches them."

Sunday, October 10, 2010, marks the day when entertainment venues all across the country will be joining together in a show of solidarity for our war Heroes, as America’s Heart Vet-Aide, rocks the nation! The goal: to raise funds for returning veterans in transition, and with four of the cities most prominent music venues (or [...]

Call it Jump Blues. Call it Swing Jazz. Call it Post-Modern, Neo-Tradionalist, Prohibition-era Jump Blues with Swing Jazz overtones, if you want. Whatever you call it, it’s still some of the most entertaining music you’ll hear and you’ll want to hear more.