NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan court says Levon Helm long ago signed away rights that let an advertising agency use the song "The Weight" in a cell phone commercial. The Band's former drummer and singer ...

Helm played superpowered, shifting backbeats, helped Bob Dylan go electric and sang some of The Band's biggest hits, including "The Weight" and... Levon Helm, Drummer And Singer In The Band, Dies ...

Exactly what The Band’s slow-swaying country-folk classic “The Weight” means may never be fully understood. Some fans call it a biblical tale with dark overtones. Others say it’s about mysterious ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Levon Helm, The Band's commanding drummer and singer, whose solid beat and Arkansas twang helped define classics from the tragic "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" to the playful "Up ...

Work is underway on an exhibit honoring an Arkansas native who sang and played drums for The Band. “This Wheel’s Still on Fire: The Legacy of Levon Helm” will go on display in August at the Folk ...

One of my favorite conversations with the late psychonautic writer Terence McKenna had to do with the evolution of psychedelic rock during the late 1960s. “Things seemed to be going along just fine,” ...

Helm wasn't exactly the leader, although it's his voice on "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," the famous Civil War narrative that appears on 1969's The Band. And while the others pitch in on Big ...