Many songwriters have specific lyrical themes that they revisit in song after song. Love, for example. Crying. Dancing. We know the obvious ones. And the Counting Crows are no exception. But the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the Counting Crows’ debut album, 1993’s August and Everything After, Duritz established the topics that mattered to him, and ...

In this reconstituted world of artists releasing recorded music, it’s been a while since Counting Crows hit us with new material, which will be the centerpiece of their upcoming June 29 Jones Beach ...

As Counting Crows were getting set to record the songs for what became their debut album, 1993's August and Everything After, Robbie Robertson offered some important advice at a time when they really ...

If you’re anything like me (and, if you’re currently reading a retrospective review of a quarter-century-old Counting Crows record, those chances are pretty good), you’re the kind of person who spends ...

It might be hard to imagine, but for a time in the 1990s Counting Crows were maybe the biggest band in the world. Lead singer Adam Duritz was singing his emotional, poetic lyrics while dating some of ...

The long, mournful trumpet-and-piano intro to "Palisades Park," the atmospheric opening track on Counting Crows' first new studio album in six years, suggests that we're in for something different. In ...