Friends, we stand at the dawn of a new year, and it is our duty to make it less excruciating than the one that came before. Twenty-eighteen was childish, demoralizing sadism from one end to the other, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. For a brief period in the mid-1990s, Hootie & the Blowfish was one ...

Hootie & the Blowfish, the band that redefined college rock music since its multi-platinum1994 debut album Cracked Rear View, will reunite for a concert tour for the first time since 2019. Hootie & ...

"It's about trying to give songs life. And I've spent my adult life doing just that," explains the musician, who plays a homecoming show on Friday in Washington, DC. Tricia Despres is a writer for ...

Darius Rucker talks about his new memoir and reunion tour with Hootie & the Blowfish. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) Darius Rucker has stories — whether they’re wild tales about Hootie & the ...

Some of Bob Dylan‘s songs from the 1970s inspired Hootie & the Blowfish’s “Only Wanna Be with You.” Initially, Dylan’s label had no issue with this. Subsequently, the band had to hand over some money.

Hootie and the Blowfish came up with their name during a drunken night at university back in the mid-Eighties, and fans are still only just learning the true meaning of the moniker four decades later.

Hootie & the Blowfish fans mark your calendars: the feel-good pop rock band is hitting the road next year with the “Summer Camp with Trucks Tour.” Produced by Live Nation, the tour with the popular ...

When Blowfish Sushi opened its doors back in 1996, San Francisco’s sushi scene looked very different that it does today (how many folks said “omakase” without stumbling back then?), and when it closed ...

Singer Darius Rucker and his band have released their first new record in more than a decade. Imperfect Circle is a well-made and frequently thoughtful album, enhanced by Rucker's warm, buttery tones.

Reporting from Tokyo — Veteran chef Yutaka Sasaki has a plan to remove the fear of eating one of the most poisonous fish on the planet: He wants to feed it to the emperor. The blowfish, known here as ...

This photo, taken Jan. 7, 2026, shows blowfish unloaded from fishing boats at a port in the city of Gangneung on South ...