NEW HAVEN >> It’s always a party when NRBQ comes to town - and there’s no better place to see them than at Toad’s Place, where NRBQ seemingly has been rockin’ out since dinosaurs walked the Earth. Who ...

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the New Rhythm and Blues Quartet performing at 7:30 p.m. Saturday night at the Barre Opera House. That s because this band with a history that goes back to 1966 Is ...

A press photo of NRBQ from 1986, featuring, from left, Al Anderson, Terry Adams, Joey Spampinato and Tom Ardolino, the lineup that appears in the concert movie, “Rusty Nail – New Year’s Eve ’84 with ...

The Hastings Hotel and Conference Center in Hartford is a perfectly nice place to stay, but it didn’t seem suited for Wild Weekend 2002, a two-day, fan-organized concert with NRBQ and related bands.

Just over a decade ago, it looked like the eclectic good-time band NRBQ, founded in 1966, had reached the end of the road. Founding member Terry Adams was recovering from cancer. Joey Spampinato, ...

When it comes to artists that stick around long enough to reach a half-century of music making, certain giants come to mind - Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, for example. But what if ...

I got the note you sent to NRBQ fans yesterday, and posted on your website, indicating you are changing the name of the Terry Adams Rock and Roll Quartet and instead calling the group NRBQ. Please don ...

Last year when NRBQ, which stands for New Rhythm and Blues Quartet, performed at a local listening room, the Tin Pan, 24-year-old drummer John Perrin had just joined the band. It was only his second ...

NRBQ is one of those rare rock bands that has managed to survive for 50 years. The reason is simple, says founding member Terry Adams: It’s all about the music. “With us it’s been the music first and ...

There was a time when it would be pretty well expected by folks of a certain era that once we all got past Thanksgiving Day, we'd just meet down at Toad's Place to see old friends in from out of town ...

Tom Ardolino was 15 the first time he saw NRBQ. It was 1970, and Mr. Ardolino, a student at Springfield’s High School of Commerce, was struck by the band’s peculiar blend of rock, jazz, blues, and Tin ...

Fans of celebrated bassist Joey Spampinato are rallying around the founding member of NRBQ as he battles cancer. The 67-year-old Spampinato, who's lived on the Cape for many years, is about to embark ...