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Rock & roll was born in the 1950s, a more raucous, electrified form of the blues. In the 1960s, the genre was given more life. Still rudimentary in some ways, it grew over the era and then found its ...

After Sterling Morrison quit the Velvet Underground, he traded his guitar for poetry books. We take a close look at his ...

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Kurt Cobain grew to disdain parts of Led Zeppelin that would help form the Nirvana frontman's musical and social foundation.

Yamaha surprised the market with dueling back-to-back synthesizer releases, the DX7 and DX1, only months apart, but the ...

Music is the heartbeat of Dinner in America, and its influence has stretched far beyond the screen. The film's soundtrack, ...

Legendary rocker Patti Smith collapsed during a concert in Brazil Jan. 29 after dealing with a severe migraine for several ...

Here’s a toast to Marianne Faithfull, a true rock & roll legend. Nobody was ever better at being an old rock star, except maybe Leonard Cohen. Yet the difference is that Cohen didn’t release his debut ...

Patti Smith, one of the most influential figures in the early punk rock scene of the 1970s, collapsed on stage on Wednesday ...

Marianne Faithfull died Thursday in London at age 78. The singer, actress and 'It' girl of 1960s London inspired — or wrote — ...

It’s called the New Farm, but its roots go back to mid-1970s San Francisco, when nobody thought twice about a working farm ...