Before Nina Simone, Nancy Wilson, or Rachelle Ferrell, there was Billie Holiday, a fierce jazz vocalist who captivated audiences with every note. Known for her unique raspy voice, she made history as ...

Back in the 1960s and '70s, few artists had much nice to say about The Doors, especially about their leader Jim Morrison. But why were they so despised?

It is a strange moment when the outcome of a case rests not on the evidence but a mistake with paperwork. Today, the terrorism charge against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, better known as Mo ...

Le Bon, a stage name for the forty-two-year-old Welsh musician Cate Timothy, has released a half-dozen solo albums in the ...

These four country music songs might sound really, really strange, but they are actually really amazing tunes.

This coming weekend, I’m taking my daughter up to Maryland’s Merriweather Post Pavilion for the All Things Go festival. We went to the show a couple of years ago, and we had a great time. Since then, ...

Fred Armisen talks about the spooky Halloween haunted-house sounds and more (airplanes, theaters, basketball) on his new '100 Sound Effects' album.

Rafael Toral, the Portuguese experimental master, takes Daryl Worthington through 10 points of entry into his enormous discography ...

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These four famous alternative rock songs use pretty unusual time signatures in the most brilliant way possible.

This revolutionary second act informs A Guy Called Gerald and The Jungle Drummer, his new collaboration with Chris Polgase. The show is a live jam featuring radically reworked cuts from groundbreaking ...