The road takes it toll on some musicians, while others wear its tread marks like badges of honor. Singer Kris Kristofferson walks the line in between, with weathered features and a graveled voice tempered by good humor and superior songwriting capabi...

Thanks to Cheap Trick, power-pop rock will forever live on. And based on last week's three-night stand at Potawatomi Bingo Casino, the boys are not only living on, they're full of the same high-level energy as when they started out 35 years ago. Wa...

Two of the most enduring musical institutions of the past century team up for a shared 8 p.m. bill at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino’s Northern Lights Theater tonight: The Blind Boys of Alabama, an ensemble of blind gospel singers that has been performing for six decades now, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, perhaps the most famous of all the New Orleans jazz collectives, a group that has been playing traditional New Orleans...

Oft-pompadoured and proudly not of his era, Chris Isaak is a paradoxical cross between a sexy Roy Orbison and a shy Elvis, a rockabilly oddity with a big, beating heart and movie-star good looks. That he’s an enigma with a scattered acting career (he starred in “The Chris Isaak Show,” one of the weirdest . . .

Engelbert Humperdinck is back for some more! The 72-year-old singer returns to the Potawatomi Bingo Casino tonight at 8 p.m. for an encore to his Tuesday night performance. One of the last of the great, popular crooners, Humperdinck charted through the ’60s with a number of romantic ballads—tracks like “Release . . .

It’s easy to take B.B. King for granted. For 60 years the elder statesman of blues has been touring rigorously, and even as he entered his 80s he barely slowed down. It was a sobering moment, then, when he announced his “farewell tour” in 2006. Fans who had gotten used to seeing him annually were forced to imagine . . .

Johnny Mathis has sold over 350 million records and released over 70 charting albums. Of course, a younger generation will be surprised to learn that the legendary pop/jazz crooner is still even alive, but Mathis has stayed active, doing about 50 performances a year and recording when he has the time. His most . . .

Last call for Springfield. Tonight at 8 p.m., “Jessie’s Girl” rocker and sometimes “General Hospital” star Rick Springfield concludes his stint at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino, after spending the better part of a week playing there.

Rick Springfield is in Milwaukee, and he’s not planning on going anywhere soon. Through May 10, the ’80s icon will be playing nightly 8 p.m. shows at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino’s Northern Lights Theatre. Thanks to the country’s persistent bout of ’80s nostalgia, Springfield’s career has been pretty busy recently . . .