The exploits of the Stray Cats (guitarist Brian Setzer and drummer Slim Jim Phantom shown here) are chronicled by Christopher McKittrick in the new biography Howling to the Moonlight on a Hot Summer ...
Long Island has a cast of musical heroes that includes Harry Chapin, Mariah Carey, Pat Benatar, Billy Joel, Twisted Sister Blue Öyster Cult, the list goes on. But a trio of teenage friends from ...
Stray Cats, the band largely responsible for the resurgence of rockabilly, announced a U.S. tour that will stop at the Celebrity Theatre on November 16. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. on August 1. The ...
Rockabilly never dies, but tours end. The latest reunion tour of Stray Cats, which brought the fine rootsy art of rockabilly back to mainstream attention in the 1980s, has its final show on Aug. 17 at ...
Forty-five years ago the world got its first recorded blast of the Stray Cats when the rockabilly trio from Long Island, then living in London, released its first single, “Runaway Boys.” And these ...
Stray Cats, the trio who revived rockabilly in the 1980s, are not going to "Rock This Town," after all. According to a social media post, frontman Brian Setzer's illness has forced the cancellation of ...