In the late 1960s, the Rolling Stones revitalized their sound with a few drug arrests and a compact cassette recorder.

A snippet of music history will hit the shelves on July 18 with the new Sly & The Family Stone album The First Family: Live ...

The Otis Redding cover appears on the upcoming LP The First Family, which contains the earliest known live recording of the ...

Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra performs its final concerts in Birmingham and London’s Hyde Park, marking the end of an iconic musical era - Dr Steven McCabe pays tribute.

A definitive ranking of the Best Metal Albums of All Time, from Black Sabbath's Paranoid to Slayer's Reign in Blood to Metallica's Master of Puppets.

The London-born guitarist began his music career in a group called the Paramounts, then followed bandmate Gary Brooker into ...

Rhett Miller may be the Old 97’s’ front man, but bassist-singer Murry Hammond is the band’s Western conscience.

Write “something exciting” was Lalo Schifrin’s brief for a new US television series about spies that aired in 1966. The Argentine composer and musician, who has died in Los Angeles aged 93, turned ...

With Pulp at Glastonbury and the Gallaghers reunited, it feels like there's something in the air again, writes Glenn Fosbraey ...

Bernie Taupin, born Bernard John Taupin on May 22, 1950, in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, is a renowned English lyricist, ...

Coming from the wild and loud New York City of the mid-1960s, The Velvet Underground cut its own path, different from any other band at that time. They mixed harsh words with hard, bold sounds.

Fifty-eight years ago today, the Beatles started a 15-week run at No. 1 with their most ambitious and culturally significant release.