Talking Heads are revered as thoughtful art rockers. But the band's history is thorny, as explored in new book, "Burning Down ...

John Lennon thought the outrage over a Beatles album was hypocritical of Americans. Here's why he thought they should be fine ...

The British band is huge at home, where it’ll play its first reunion show on Friday. Despite success in the U.S., the ...

A standout track from The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds album, it epitomised Wilson’s shift into complex, sophisticated compositions ...

If the role of the rest of The Beach Boys was diminished on a musical level, Pet Sounds was still a triumph of vocal layering ...

On May 4, 1977, Toronto punk rock pioneers the Viletones played the Colonial Underground, a basement club on Yonge Street.

Toto’s David Paich on the sessions he still can’t believe became hits, from “Africa” to Boz Scaggs’ “Lowdown.” ...

It was a homecoming for Jesika von Rabbit and bassist Lee Joseph when the duo hosted an album release party in their Joshua ...

It wasn't one of Neil Diamond's favorite songs, but "Kentucky Woman" prompted a shift in his career, and resurfaced a year after its release.

Author and podcaster Nora Princiotti tells NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about her new book, "Hit Girls," and the pop stars of the turn of the millennium.

In the summer, you can read books in a hammock, you can read them by the sea, you can read them on your porch, you can read ...

Red or blue, John or Paul: that Liverpool is a city packed with personality is something everyone can agree upon. Besides the ...