When the mainstream popularity of rap music elevated in the late 1980s, it often did so with the help of inventive sampling. While many samples came from the R&B funk world, clever hip-hop artists and ...
These new wave icons surprisingly only had one Top 10 international hit: “I Melt With You” from 1982. We get it, though. It’s a wonderful song from a wonderful era of post-punk music.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame voters were asking themselves that very question ahead of last year’s supersize ceremony, which ...
Five years after reuniting on stage, the Black Crowes took their reunion to the next level with 2024's excellent new studio album Happiness Bastards, their first collection of new songs in 15 years.
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Chicago is now known as the legendary "rock and roll band with horns," but in the early going, they faced an uphill battle. Surprisingly, it wasn't with the critics. 1969's Chicago Transit ...
The sheer scale of Michael Jackson’s fame can sometimes overshadow the music itself. From the moment he danced into America’s ...
Singer Rod Stewart, who helped British rock conquer the world with a string of megahits, turns 80 on Friday -- with no plans ...
The late Detroit musician Ted Lucas never became famous, but he did a lot of things in the ’60s and ’70s. Lucas led psych-rock bands like the Spike-Drivers and the Misty Wizards. He worked as ...
Once the first chill of the year hits the nation, supermarkets, radios and Spotify playlists slowly but surely start to churn out repeated plays of Christmas classics to kick off the festive spirit.
The world may have devolved into a cruel, dark, Hobbesian state of nature in 2024, but it was a pretty amazing time for live rock music. The Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen & the E Street ...