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Dr. Dre’s chops as a rapper are fairly well known, but his legacy as a producer can’t be understated. His collaborations with artists like Snoop...

Hip-hop has long been a platform for storytelling, but few have taken this connection quite as literally as Black Star: the rap duo comprising Talib...

The musical times were changing in 1977, but as the Carpenters arrived at their eighth studio album, they admirably stuck to their impeccably high standards....

During the late 70s, KISS were a full-scale phenomenon. Not only did their face-paint, spectacular live shows, and platinum-selling albums, including Love Gun and Rock...

You think “November Rain,” you think: a tiny white chapel, a hugely expensive video, a wailing guitar solo at the edge of a cliff. You...

There are many New Orleans voices that tell you immediately where they are from. Louis Armstrong’s scat improvisations, Louis Prima’s swagger, Aaron Neville’s quivering falsetto...