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Norman Greenbaum's 'Spirit in the Sky' album is being reissued on vinyl, making it available for the first time in years.
Things have never been easy for Metallica’s 1996 album Load, a multiplatinum record nobody ever admits to liking, especially the band’s most avid fans. In early 1995, Metallica had a “good problem”: ...
Kurt Cobain cited Pixies as a key inspiration, fretting he may even have ripped them off. The late-'80s indie band is still recording, still touring — and racking up billions of Spotify streams.
Two of music’s powerful visionaries died this week. The songs they meticulously constructed offered an escape their makers ...
Mixing styles at a critical moment in American history, Sly Stone helped create the musical world we live in today.
Sly Stone, the influential but enigmatic funk-rock star whose soulful, socially conscious recordings altered the course of ...
Leading Sly and the Family Stone, he helped redefine the landscape of pop, funk and rock in the late 1960s and early ’70s.
One of the seminal Bay Area bands of the ’60s and ’70s is set to release a previously unearthed live album recorded in 1967.
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Today, keyboardist-vocalist Jordan is the sole remaining original member in War, but he’ll be joining the band’s three other surviving founders, Howard E. Scott (guitar, vocals), Harold Ray Brown ...
Singers Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe have worked with a roster of greats in the two decades they've been together — people ...
(OK, I exaggerate: state-approved music was allowed but not even parents wanted to listen to that dreck – anything actually good was forbidden. Western radio stations were jammed, rock music was ...