Angélique Kidjo Talks ‘Hope,’ Her Mother’s Legacy and Making History With a...
Two things have been crucial to a restless Angélique Kidjo since her childhood in Benin, West Africa: diverse, universal, nuanced brands of truthful musical storytelling in all its forms, and her...
View ArticleFiring Up ‘The Power Station’ for a 40th Anniversary Boxed Set: Duran Duran’s...
As a founding member of Duran Duran, you wouldn’t think that much could surprise John Taylor. By 1984, each of the British new wave gods’ first three albums had gone platinum, their cinematic videos...
View ArticleCelebrating Bob Weir: 10 of His Most Essential Musical Moments
The long strange trip that is the Grateful Dead and its primary offshoot, Dead & Company, has truly faded into grey with the passing of Bob Weir. Although Jerry Garcia cast the longest shadow...
View ArticleAce Frehley’s 10 Greatest Musical Moments: With Kiss and Solo
For a group that performed in garish makeup and costumes amid explosions and fire-breathing, it’s perhaps not surprising that Kiss did not often get much respect as musicians. Yet the band’s co-founder...
View ArticleAlex Warren on Getting Extraordinary Results Out of ‘Ordinary,’ the Single...
Amid the many familiar names in the top 10 at present, there’s one that stands out as this year’s biggest who’s that? breakout so far. Nestled in the No. 2 position on Billboard’s Top 100, and poised...
View ArticleBjörk on Her New Concert Movie, ‘Cornucopia,’ and Creating an Immersive...
In talking about her new concert movie, “Björk: Cornucopia,” the movie’s namesake mentions the way the performance in the film wraps up, and the finally hopeful message she wanted to get across with...
View ArticleChubby Checker on Finally Twisting His Way Into the Rock Hall of Fame:...
When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced Sunday night that Chubby Checker would be inducted into its ranks later this year, many fans of early rock ‘n’ roll who’d assumed that the Hall would never...
View ArticleDavid Thomas, Founder of Boundary-Pushing Rock Band Pere Ubu, Dies at 71
David Thomas, who fronted the boundary-pushing rock band Pere Ubu from the late 1970s forward, died Wednesday at age 71. The news was announced on the group’s Facebook page, where the cause of death...
View ArticleClem Burke, Drummer for Blondie, Dies at 70
Clem Burke, the drummer for Blondie, has died, the group announced Monday morning, He was 70 and died following what was described by the surviving group members as a “private battle with cancer.” A...
View ArticleWill Smith’s ‘Based on a True Story’ Foregoes Fun for Self-Help Soliloquies:...
Remember when Will Smith was the fun rapper? The enormously affable, uncomplicated rapper? The giddily cheerful Fresh Prince behind “Parents Just Don’t Understand,” the Big Willie Styling hunk of...
View ArticleEli Roth on Curating the Music of Italian Sex Comedies for a New Album...
In the spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. For Eli Roth in spring, however, his fancies tend to turn darker, more menacingly humorous, and toward the more bloodily...
View ArticleAs David Bowie’s ‘Young Americans’ Turns 50, Guitarist Carlos Alomar Recalls...
When Carlos Alomar talks about the 50th anniversary of “Young Americans” — David Bowie’s self-defined ode to “plastic soul,” released March 7, 1975, and re-released today by Rhino/Parlophone — it’s...
View ArticleRoberta Flack’s 10 Greatest Musical Moments
Once you put into perspective that chart-topping pop and R&B vocalist-composer Roberta Flack started her career accompanying opera vocalists on piano at one club, performing quiet jazz and blues at...
View ArticleDavid Johansen, New York Dolls Co-Founder, Suffering From Stage 4 Cancer,...
David Johansen — the sole surviving founding member of the New York Dolls and a solo artist who also performs as the lounge singer Buster Poindexter — is suffering from stage four cancer, a brain tumor...
View ArticleThe Doors’ John Densmore and Robby Krieger on Their 60th Anniversary,...
Before John Densmore exits a conversation about 2025’s celebration of the Doors’ 60th anniversary with alive-and-thriving guitarist Robby Krieger, the drummer jokes about another six-decade-old...
View ArticleJacob Collier, the Grammys’ Surprise Album of the Year Nominee (Again), on...
As he was with the 2021 Grammys and “Djesse Vol. 3,” Jacob Collier is, again, up for album of the year, this time courtesy of his spiky, soul-filled “Djesse Vol. 4.” While his first AOTY nom found the...
View ArticleMarianne Faithfull’s 10 Greatest Musical Moments
What makes a Marianne Faithfull song great is something an artist can’t buy or learn: It’s the sound of experience. Faithfull’s most haunting (and haunted) quality as an artist was the raspy world...
View ArticleMeet the Man Behind the On-Screen Singing of Ariana Grande, Timothée Chalamet...
Ariana Grande in “Wicked,” Timothée Chalamet in “A Complete Unknown” and Angelina Jolie in “Maria”: What these performances have in common – besides a strong shot at Oscar nominations – is the man who...
View Article25 New Holiday Music Releases: Victoria Monet, BTS’s V, Clay Aiken, the Kelce...
Even the best worst year ever – choose the epoch closest to your offended political affiliation – has a Christmas. And every Christmas, crumbling culture or not, comes with scads of new holiday music....
View ArticleThe Best Music Books of 2024: Joni Mitchell, Lisa Marie Presley, Kathleen...
We say it every year: There are way too many music books for any human to keep track of, let alone read. Yet this year has seen a backbreaking pile of welcome additions to the boundless stacks, just a...
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