“Royal Mint,” a new album from the Cash Box Kings, has a classic Chicago blues sound, but the content is distinctly modern. They play the Knuckle Down Saloon on July 1.

Read the review here.

(Photo: Chris Monaghan)

One of the most fascinating figures in modern music history gets a flat, Hollywood treatment in “All Eyez on Me,” a biopic on Tupac Shakur.

Read the story here.

(Photo: courtesy of Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation)

Phat Phunktion, a Madison institution for two decades, has released a terrific new live album and Blu-ray.

Read the review here.

(An earlier story I did on the band is here.)

Milwaukee radio station WUWM had me on their Lake Effect show to discuss my latest story on strip club owner Jon Ferraro in Milwaukee Magazine.

“[Steve] profiles the man trying to change the reputation of gentlemen’s clubs as dens of iniquity,” they write.

Listen to the radio segment here.

Read the story here.