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BY: JIM VILLANUEVA PHOTOS: RICK DIAMOND, JASON POWELL “I look at Spotify. It’s not a great moneymaker, on the one hand. On the other hand, maybe it does help because you’re spreading the word wider. If there’s over a million people listening to a Styx song every day, that’s...

BY: JIM VILLANUEVA PHOTOS: Sandro “I’m out from (under) many things. The chains of addiction. The chains of self-consumption. The slave mentality of my own hungers and desires. I feel I’ve really made steps, which is amazing because for so long I’ve lived the life of a slave to...

BY: JIM VILLANUEVA PHOTOS: COURTESY OF MIKE GARSON “Right now we have over 40 songs in the set…even getting it down to 40 was hard. And probably each show we might do 20 some odd songs. It’s probably anywhere from 22 to 26 songs a show.” The daunting task of combing through David...

BY: JIM VILLANUEVA PHOTOS: Adrian Elliot, Devin Whetstone “There’s just a few people that I know in this world that are such fans of lyrics to the degree that I am. The art of putting a line together…and deliver it in a unique way. There’s just nothing better in the whole wide...

BY: JIM VILLANUEVA PHOTOS: Mascot-Provogue.com “The inspiration behind it was the travel that I’ve been doing. (My) drummer Jonathan Joseph…had been studying two rhythms…from Africa – from Cameroon, specifically. It was just a nice experience.” The outrageously talented and...

BY: JIM VILLANUEVA PHOTOS: FRANK LEE DRENNEN AND MASEN LARSEN “All I had to do was hear her voice for about, oh, 12 nanoseconds and I was like, ‘Man, I’m gonna sing with her.’” That Is the succinct yet speaking-volumes-version of how Frank Lee Drennen and Cindy Wasserman first...

BY: JIM VILLANUEVA PHOTOS: GREG ALLEN “I never really thought about being a girl playing an instrument or being in this business. I just did what I loved and thank goodness people didn’t tell me it was odd for quite some time. Until it was too late and I was already in it.”...

BY: JIM VILLANUEVA PHOTOS: GLENN GOTTLIEB “I’ve been in this band called Yes for 45 years. I’ve been in Yes the whole time along with Chris (Squire). We were the only two that kept the thing going, really.” Yes drummer Alan White, along with guitarist Steve Howe, keyboardist...

BY: JIM VILLANUEVA “I’m writing and working on new songs and looking at all kinds of different and new ways of presenting myself for the future. It’s just all evolving now.” Evolution – both personal and professional – is at the heart of where Ann Wilson finds herself in 2017. A...

BY: JIM VILLANUEVA “Music is one of those things that helps us get through incredible challenge. When you get to go to a place like California WorldFest where you see the emerging stars from countries all over the world, it’s really a blessing to feel that all in one place.”...