The exploits of the Stray Cats (guitarist Brian Setzer and drummer Slim Jim Phantom shown here) are chronicled by Christopher McKittrick in the new biography Howling to the Moonlight on a Hot Summer ...

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Rockabilly never dies, but tours end. The latest reunion tour of Stray Cats, which brought the fine rootsy art of rockabilly back to mainstream attention in the 1980s, has its final show on Aug. 17 at ...

Stray Cats, the band that put Rockabilly music back on the record charts in the early-'80s, scored several big hits on both sides of the Atlantic thanks to a striking visual 1950’s style brought “up ...

Musician Brian Setzer announced on Thursday that he can no longer play guitar. In a social media post, the leader of the 1980s rockabilly band The Stray Cats and the ’90s swing band The Brian Setzer ...

The Stray Cats have announced their first tour since Brian Setzer shared he was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease in February Setzer has since released a video of himself playing guitar in April ...

Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats has developed an autoimmune disease that prevents him from playing guitar, according to a recent Instagram post from the Massapequa-raised frontman. Setzer, 65, did not ...

Veteran rockabilly trio The Stray Cats won’t be hitting the road for its 2025 fall concert tour after all. Citing “serious illness,” the band’s guitarist-singer, Brian Setzer, announced Tuesday ...

Rockabilly revivalists the Stray Cats hit 1982 album Built for Speed featured two Top 10 hits: “Stray Cat Strut” and “Rock This Town”. They followed it up with Rant n' Rave with the Stray Cats just ...

When Stray Cats played the same venue, incidentally also on a balmy yet comfortable August night back in 2019, times were different. The world had not yet been ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, so ...

SAN DIEGO — Veteran rockabilly trio the Stray Cats won’t be hitting the road for its 2025 fall concert tour after all. Citing “serious illness,” the band’s guitarist-singer, Brian Setzer, announced ...