In the mid-1960s, with protests over the Vietnam War and racial discord roiling, The Lovin’ Spoonful song “Summer in the City” became an anthem of a society in turmoil. When the hippie and drug ...

With their striped shirts, shaggy hair, granny glasses and string of hits, The Lovin' Spoonful were akin to an American Beatles. But where The Beatles drew on American rock 'n' roll of the 1950s, the ...

Is it wrong to invoke a John Sebastian solo tune — “Welcome Back” — to welcome back the Lovin’ Spoonful this weekend, at a Los Angeles show, for the first time in decades? It is wrong, in Sebastian’s ...

Before “Welcome Back,” before his impromptu Woodstock appearance, even before the Lovin’ Spoonful, John Sebastian had a reputation as an accompanist. During the heyday of Greenwich Village (where he ...

“I’m a happy idiot. What can I tell you?” This was John Sebastian, leaving the Alex Theatre in Glendale early Sunday morning after an epic Lovin’ Spoonful tribute show that lasted four hours, with the ...

The year’s not over yet, but it’s not too early to start filling up you 2019 concert calendar. First up, John Sebastian, founding member of the Lovin’ Spoonful, will headline Chateau Rive at the Flour ...

John Sebastian will reunite with the surviving members of the Lovin’ Spoonful for the first time in 20 years next week as part of a Los Angeles-area benefit gig. Sebastian and former bandmates Joe ...

MORRISTOWN — Music legend John Sebastian will be making a rare appearance at the Morris Museum’s Bickford Theatre on Thursday. Like the Cheshire Cat from “Alice in Wonderland,” Sebastian has made a ...

A reunion of three original members was just part of an epic L.A. show that also had Sebastian acting as a sideman to guest artists. This was John Sebastian, leaving the Alex Theatre in Glendale early ...

Variety got in touch with Sebastian before he got on the plane to come out for Saturday’s Alex show (which is sold out). Among the topics: how happy it’s made him later in life to hear about the ...