Rock Candy

Cold months are conducive to huddling in bars, getting over breakups and forging new friendships over late night mixed drink philosophy.

Sleater-Kinney’s fantasy about wanting to be punk rock icons — “I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone” — has come true.

Sam Smith and Beck were big winners during last night's Grammy Awards, but they weren't the only thing going on at The Grammys.

Wanna chat? World-Herald music writer Kevin Coffey will be chatting with readers through the Grammys, which begin tonight at 7 p.m. on CBS. Head to Rock Candy, Kevin's blog, to join the fun.

The duo of arenas' presence has meant 43 big-time concerts in the past 15 months.

There’s nothing like keeping up the heat with a good record and a warmth-giving beverage.

Ranking the biggest artists since the 1950s wasn’t too difficult.

COUNCIL BLUFFS — Punk isn’t dead, but it is getting older.

We took a lot of concert photos in 2014. I shot more than 20 shows (and two festivals) and World-Herald staff photographers did even more.

The best songs of 2014 were streamed on my Spotify countless times. The albums they came on practically lived in my CD player. 

Good music is what we listen to on the radio or while we’re jogging on a nice day.

On Friday, the Grammy Awards dragged their nomination announcements out over half a day. Maybe they needed to drum up excitement somehow because it was a such a dull list.