When reporting feature stories, I’m always much more interested in meeting artists on their home turf than in an artificial “third place” located somewhere between where they work and where they lay ...

Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and J.P Richardson (‘The Big Popper’) in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. Valens himself had long feared flying, after his best friend was killed years before from a ...

In the summer of 1969, as the Vietnam War raged, Jimi Hendrix stepped onto the Woodstock  stage and bent the US national ...

There's a Beatles song that stands out not just for its beauty, but for its incredible influence on musicians worldwide since its release in 1965.

You’ve heard their songs — on Breaking Bad, on the radio, sung by Nilsson or Mariah Carey— but you may not know the ...

Taylor Swift left empty-handed as some of the biggest names in music were recognized for their achievements over the past ...

ISO opened with the POPS players launching into the "rollicking" overture to Dmitry Kabalevsky's comic opera "Colas Breugnon" ...

When Richie Kotzen was 12 years old, he had two baseball T-shirts that he would wear to school. One was a Black Sabbath shirt ...

From Apollonia and Debbie Harry to Aimee Mann and Crystal Waters, we salute the unstoppable artists whose sounds, styles, and ...

The Who are one of the most iconic bands in rock history, but they were originally called something very different - and the ...

M Ross Perkins is a psychedelic songwriter from Dayton, Ohio. On the cover of his third album What’s the Matter, M Ross?, he sits on a stool, surrounded by ...

From The Sex Pistols to U2, Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters might have shared love for Bob Dylan and Neil Young but he has shared a lot of hate for bands too.