Marketplace Morning Report’s “What’s That Like?” series is exploring the odd, unusual and downright weird jobs that help prop up our economy. Staff Sergeant Justis MacKenzie had a successful career as ...

Military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars established Britain’s first brass bands earlier than previously thought, new research reveals. The study undermines the idea that brass bands were ...

More than 100 music acts and individual musicians dropped out of the popular South by Southwest (SXSW) arts festival this year in Austin, Texas to protest the event’s sponsorship by the US Army and ...

All good American patriots know the Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776. But not as well known is that the Continental Congress, foreseeing war on the horizon in 1775, authorized ...

Do you remember the grunge guitarist who played in a couple of big bands and then quit music to join the military back in the '90s? Jason Everman is known for playing both the guitar and bass in a ...