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Even for the biggest stars, getting music onto streaming services can still be a complicated endeavor. To release ‘Jesus Is Born,’ West turned to Vydia
The unlikely feature was a decidedly un-emo risk that paid off for band’s ambitious ‘Black Parade’
Between a mysterious 1975 song set and a bounty of new publications, the late trailblazer continues to fascinate new generations of scholars and superfans
How American music legends made millions off the work of a Zulu tribesman who died a pauper.
The band didn’t write “Revolution Rock,” Joe Strummer started “Lost in the Supermarket” on the back of a guitar-string package, and Paul Simonon smashed his bass a day…
In a decade defined by loss, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen and others made transcendent art in their last days.
In an excerpt from the new book ‘1973: Rock at the Crossroads,’ Andrew Grant Jackson breaks down the counterculture moments of the summer of 1973
Their 1969 classic remains the band’s darkest LP, and that’s why it sounds perfect right now
New box set features vintage live recordings of New Riders of the Purple Sage, made by the pioneering acid chemist and sound engineer known as Bear
“Anybody in their right mind would stop whatever they were doing,” singer recalls of the lead-up to the pair’s unlikely 1990 collaboration on “Steel Bars”
