Music

From Great Falls to Baker, here's a roundup of who's playing where at Montana fairs this summer.

Bands come and go, but D'tective has been rocking the stages around Montana for 43 years. Surely that must be a record. Here's my Q&A with founder Rod Nielson.

The grand reopening of the downtown venue is this weekend with the Oxxbird Music Festival.

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Gallatin County Sheriff's officers say cranking this hit AC/DC song usually gets the massive creatures moving.

Were you a Partridge Family fanatic back in the day?

Montana as a whole is certainly inspiring to many artists, but Billings seems to be more of a footnote for awesome songs.

You've heard classics by David Bowie, the Rolling Stones and Neil Young hundreds of times. Now it's time to go deeper.

He thanked me profusely at the end of the interview like I was doing him a favor instead of the other way around. He then offered to buy me lunch if I ever found myself in Ouray, Colorado. He said, "I'm in the phone book. So, just give me a call".

The only exception is when you have somebody call in for the same song at the same time every day.

Some of my friends who like rock music over country music (which they still call country and WESTERN to irritate me) are upset that Dolly Parton is possibly going to get into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. She's currently in fourth place behind Duran Duran, Eminem, Pat Benatar, and just ahead of the Eurythmics in the fan balloting. An...

"The Party of the Summer" is moving to MetraPark this year. Headliners are Lynyrd Skynrd and Whiskey Myers + 11 other acts, spread over two days and three stages. Early-bird tickets go on sale 3/7.