Before he arrived at the Old Joliet Prison south of Chicago, now the Joliet Area Historical Museum, Erik Devereux made sure his ensemble was in appropriate Blues Brothers order. The basics weren’t a ...

They were on a mission from God. When Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, and director John Landis decided they would adapt the popular Blues Brothers characters from Saturday Night Live into a feature film, ...

It's time to get the band back together once again, because Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi's seminal musical, The Blues Brothers, is driving onto Netflix this June. Directed by John Landis, The Blues ...

Fans of “The Blues Brothers” have been looking forward to the return of a festival billed as the world’s greatest tribute to the iconic 1980 film. After being postponed in 2023 due to the Screen ...

Thirty-six years after the death of his close friend and bandmate, Dan Aykroyd paid a touching tribute to John Belushi with the opening scene of the otherwise forgettable Blues Brothers 2000. The 1998 ...

The Top 3 Lehigh Valley-area concerts this week include a few award-winning artists, and a tribute group paying homage to a band that got its start as a “Saturday Night Live” musical skit. First is a ...

The following is adapted from “The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic,” published March 19 by Atlantic Monthly Press. The author ...

Andrea Vollmer, left, from Plainfield, and Madison Kush, from Minooka, attend Blues Brothers Con at the Old Joliet Prison on Aug. 19, 2022. The convention concludes Aug. 20 with a free ...

Shawnee Haas is a TV/Movies News Writer for Collider. She graduated in 2021 from the University of Central Florida with a bachelor's in Film & TV Production. She enjoys writing nonfiction and creative ...