B.A.P is Back (Well, Kind Of!)
Some of B.A.P is back!! Debuting as a boy band in 2012, four out of six members are back and ready to show the world...
Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes: Progressive Pioneer Kevin Ayers
Even if you knew nothing about Kevin Ayers, a glance at a career that included co-founding Soft Machine, and then recording for Harvest, Island, and...
‘Mother’s Milk’: Behind Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Funk-Rap Rebirth
It’s easy to forget, but in the late 80s, Red Hot Chili Peppers weren’t the same influential funk-rock band they are today. In 1989, the...
‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door’: Eric Clapton Tips His Hat To Bob Dylan
Eric Clapton was often in an interpretative mood in the early and mid-1970s. In addition to expanding his own songbook, on albums such as 461...
Cheek To Cheek: Celebrating The Perfect Partnership Of Ella And Louis
The old adage that opposites attract couldn’t be more apt in the case of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, whose album collaborations for Verve Records,...
‘Goldenwings’: How South American Jazz-Funkateers Opa Got Off The Ground
The 1970s witnessed bold experimentation in the jazz world, where groundbreaking musicians like Miles Davis and his acolytes John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea,...