San Diego Union-Tribune music critic George Varga began drumming in rock bands at 12 and writing professionally about music at 15. A Louisiana native who grew up mostly in Germany, Varga has earned ...

In 1969, Motown singer Shorty Long died in a boating accident. He was only 29. A year earlier, Long had scored a top-10 hit with his novelty recording of "Here Comes the Judge," a routine developed by ...

He was best known for one enduring TV theme, but he had a startlingly diverse career as a composer, arranger and conductor in a wide range of genres.

Walter Scott, who with his twin brother Wallace “Scotty” founded the legendary R&B group The Whispers, has passed away at the ...

Name Hello! I’m Robin Wilson, lead singer of Gin Blossoms. Best known for Being a part-time singer of the Smithereens.

Variety critics pick albums by Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga, FKA Twigs, Addison Rae, Lucy Dacus, PinkPantheress, Jason Isbell and ...

Barbra Streisand loves a good duet partner and she's wrangled 11 for "Partners: Volume 2," including Sting and Bob Dylan.

It’s not even July yet! It’s more temperate this week in Indie Basement where an exciting June goes out on a fairly mellow ...

Both of her albums ... British jazz group Ezra Collective and R&B singer Corinne Bailey Rae. Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) will say a "final goodbye" to touring with a hit-filled set at ...

Argentinian composer Lalo Schifrin, the genre-blending film and television composer behind the musical scores of "Mission: ...

Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy theme for ''Mission: Impossible'' and more than 100 other arrangements for film and television, died Thursday. He was 93.

If he had only composed the unforgettable instrumental theme from Mission: Impossible, Lalo Schifrin would be fondly ...