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 aren’t on tour this summer — and that’s just fine with the band’s lead guitarist Mark Bryan. "There's never been a time where I thought I wouldn't be making music," says Bryan, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was the Year of Hootie: With grunge tailing off, country getting huge and top 40 starting to drift to a mellower and rootsier ...

COLUMBIA — Four kids who met at the University of South Carolina and honed their song-writing skills in messy apartments and on cramped bar stages in Columbia created one of the soundtracks of the ...

This year, the Hootie & the Blowfish Foundation has awarded $120,000 ($30,000 each) to four organizations that develop future teachers and foster literacy among students, nurture life skills in youth, ...

"It's more about trying to give songs life. And I've spent my adult life doing just that," he tells PEOPLE The guitarist plays a hometown show at The Atlantis in Washington, DC on Friday Hootie & the ...

"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. Hootie & the Blowfish cofounder ...

"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 ...