February 2024

The Bar-Kays had gone through hell: most of their members had gone to Heaven, killed in the December 1967 plane crash that claimed the life...

There’s rap, and then there’s spoken word. Many great tracks have contained the human voice in narrative, rather than rhyming form, in all kinds of...

Rick James? The super freak. The inventor of punk-funk. Yet history has kinda let this pioneer of brittle, bruising good-time groove slip from its memory....

Prior to 1974, electronic music visionaries Tangerine Dream were strictly an underground phenomenon, but the course of their career changed dramatically when respected BBC Radio...

In the beginning, there was Bo Diddley, and Bo Diddley had the beat. But there’s a lot more to the story than that. In 1955,...

In early 1975, the Blackbyrds, the group inspired, mentored and produced by the great jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd, were on their way to their biggest...