High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Blue News is an American rock band from West Terre Haute, Indiana, now also based in Nashville, TN. The Blue News is known for their blues, alternative rock, post-grunge sound. They are influenced by bands across many genres such as: The Black Keys, Beck, RL Burnside, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Donny Hathaway. The Blue News has received increasing critical acclaim in the form of music placements, media coverage, radio charting and blues awards. The band has recently gained high-profile fans in the music industry including Sublime with Rome, producer Sylvia Massy & Stephen Wrench, original manager for Lynyrd Skynyrd who now works with the band.