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 ...

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 ...

For the past few Decembers, I’ve had a very silly but fun (for me at least) tradition on Twitter: Each and every day, I tweet a different lyric from “A Long December” by Counting Crows. I do this ...

After a five-year break from songwriting, Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz experienced a surge of creativity not long ago, creating an ambitious group of songs that flowed into each other. During ...

Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz says he used to write songs all the time. But following the release of the band’s 1993 debut, August and Everything After, his output slowed down. “I had no choice, ...

With the advent of Wilmington's new, 7,200-capacity Live Oak Bank Pavilion, which opened in July, a lot of big-name acts are playing the Port City for the first time. The latest is Counting Crows, who ...

Great songwriters generally display the ability to approach songs in a variety of ways. Even when they go outside what others might perceive as their wheelhouse, they can still deliver effective, ...

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 ...

Among acts that skyrocketed to stardom in the 1990s, Counting Crows has aged more gracefully than most. Maybe it’s because the San Francisco-born band has produced new music at a relatively leisurely ...

In 1993, Adam Duritz and his band Counting Crows took roots-rock to new heights with their debut August and Everything After. More than 30 years... 'Being dismissed for being different': Adam Duritz ...