September 2024

Great bands have often had an extended incubation period before they made their full national and international breakthrough. Kool & the Gang were a major...

The name of Johnny Cash began to edge into the national American consciousness in late 1955, when his Sun Records single “Cry! Cry! Cry!”, a...

During three days in September 1966, two jazz heavyweights – both arguably at the peak of their respective powers – joined forces in Rudy Van...

On Thursday, September 21, 1961, Detroit trumpeter Donald Byrd took a quintet into Rudy Van Gelder’s famed New Jersey recording studio to lay down the...

Pop music always has a way of reminding us what matters most. It’s worth remembering that some of the most hopeful, enduring protest anthems have...

Superficially, Chris Cornell’s solo debut album, Euphoria Morning (later reissued as Euphoria Mourning), ticked all the important boxes. Widely accepted as an artistic triumph by...