A long-running band doesn't need conventions or formulas; like family members who can finish one another's sentences, they can skip the basics and get down to deeper communications.

As with a few of jazz's other long-running big bands, it created something like a subculture unto itself.

George Clinton's long-running band has become an American institution, using funk to subvert and outflank any puritan reflexes.

Another long-running band is calling it quits.

Fashek was, like many Nigerian reggae performers, a part of the long-running band The Mandators.

A long-running band that has been dormant lately, the Cure, was Sunday's headliner; the festival's 50,000 tickets were sold out for both days.

La Ley, from Mexico, is a long-running Rock en Español band that is hugely popular south of the border.

The Roots, the long-running live hip-hop band from Philadelphia, came to Radio City Music Hall on Thursday night for the first of two sold-out shows.

George Clinton's long-running band has become an American institution.