Shit runs deep between Lucero and Orlando, deep enough to earn the Memphis country-rockers honorary citizenship (actually, frontman Ben Nichols did live here for a short while back in the late 2000s).

Lucero has never been much for expectations. Hell, they formed just to mess with ’em, playing traditional country to the punks before it was fashionable, back in the late ’90s. “I had never been in a ...

As a band with a quarter-century of gigs to their credit, Lucero have downshifted their touring ambitions in recent years. These days they’re out on the road for a crisp 100 dates or so, a ...

BraodwayWorld was lucky enough to pick the brains of two of the Twin Cities' best creatives as they have joined forces to ...

Lucero love to catch you by surprise, not with their volume—though they could blow the roof off a venue—but with a sudden ambush of memory and feeling. Over their 26-year history, the Memphis group ...

Sitting outside of Tartine Bakery on a Thursday afternoon, Lucero’s Ben Nichols and Brian Venable stand out like a couple of blue-collar Southern sore thumbs among their Hollywood surroundings. But ...

Ask Lucero’s Ben Nichols about the making of the Memphis roots-rockers' new album, “When You Found Me,” and his assessment has little to do with production techniques or new sounds or even music at ...

Last March, Ben Nichols found himself in the same predicament as every other working musician: at home with an unusual amount of time on his hands. Fortunately, the singer and principal songwriter of ...