TROY >> While there will never be anything quite like The Band, the pioneers in creating the genre now known as Americana music, a new form of that band called The Weight is carrying on its legacy ...

Jim Weider promises to "rock the house" when he visits Iowa City. So take a load off Saturday and return to the 1970s with The Weight at The Englert Theatre. Weider collaborated for 25 years with The ...

First thing’s first: The Weight are most assuredly not a tribute band. Far from it, these guys are really more of an extension of The Band itself, with members who played in The Band in its later ...

It’s hard to put a finger on it, but there is something just so soothing about the song, “The Weight,” by the Canadian-born rock band, the Band. It’s like an old dusty short story that you read as a ...

Few bands have delved as deeply into the roots of rock music as The Band, formed in the late 1960s. Till the mid-1970s, few bands were as influential as this group, originally made up of four Canadian ...

You wouldn’t necessarily figure a song inspired by filmmakers Luis Buñuel and Ingmar Bergman — and crammed with surreal lyrical imagery referencing everything from the Bible to the Jewish owner of a ...

The Band's "The Weight" can be heard in a new Super Bowl LVIII commercial for Budweiser. What begins as an instrumental version of the track eventually opens up into the original song. Released in ...

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon looked back on the 969 episodes of the show’s run with its last episode on Friday. Among an endless stream of jokes and advice from celebrities for Fallon’s new reign as ...

In an interview with WSJ's John Jurgensen, singer/songwriter Robbie Robertson discusses his new book, "Legends, Icons and Rebels," introducing children to some of the most influential innovators in ...

In Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz, the classic 1978 concert movie documenting what was supposed to be the Band’s final concert, Mavis Staples and her old group the Staples Singers backed the Band up ...

Growing up a "country boy who liked to hunt" in Woodstock, New York, Jim Weider always felt some sort of connection to The Band, especially to members Levon Helm and Garth Hudson. Bob Dylan's onetime ...