“Don’t rock the jukebox/Play me a country song,” Alan Jackson sings in his No. 1 hit “Don’t Rock the Jukebox.” That’s what Jackson plays: Not pop or rock with a twang, as virtually every other top country artist now plays. But country. And that’s what he played Saturday at Sands Bethlehem Event Center in what [...]

1) Joey Ramone “Ya Know? ” The postumously-assembled, second solo album from brother Joey Ramone shows more range than his original minimalist band, even going acoustic (!) Still, it’s the singer’s trademark, deadpan drawl that gives this disc undying life. 2) Pantera “Vulgar Display of Power 20th Anniversary Edition” Two decades after the classic thrash [...]

SPRING HILL — At age 4, Amanda Torp-Pedersen stood in front of her hometown church in Garden Prairie, Ill., singing “The Lord Is the Strength of My Life” with all of her heart. From then on, she sang basically anywhere that anyone would allow her, telling her family she would make a career of it [...]