February 2024

Combining hooky, guitar-driven songs with photogenic good looks, Big Star seemingly had it all. It also helped that they had a talismanic frontman in the...

“So little time, so much music” seemed to be the motto of man-on-a-mission Bobby Darin, who, after rheumatic fever left him with a critical heart...

The storied jazz catalog of Blue Note Records has been a frequent source of samples by modern-day dance, R&B and hip-hop artists and producers. One...

Even by prog’s rigorous standards, prolific shapeshifters Gentle Giant were almost unassailably virtuosic. Long-serving guitarist Gary Green and multi-instrumentalist sibling founder members Phil, Derek, and...

As the summer of 1967 approached, things did not look auspicious for 29-year-old Etta James, who had spent recent times detoxing at the USC County...

The composer and arranger Gil Evans teamed with legendary trumpeter Miles Davis to make some of the greatest music of the 20th century; records like...