On the night of Aug. 12, 1971, in front of an apartment building on New York City’s Upper West Side, one Curtis Ousley got into an argument with one Juan Montanez. The central air conditioning inside ...

Country Music Hall of Fame member John Anderson died Oct. 21, 2026, at age 71, just three days after attending the annual ...

Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, a founding member of Steely Dan and former guitarist with the Doobie Brothers, has written his memoir, ...

Linda LaFlamme, who, as a member of the San Francisco band It’s a Beautiful Day, co-wrote their best-known song, “White Bird,” died Oct. 23, 2024, in Harrisonburg, Va. She was 85 and died from ...

From 1968 to 1976, the Scottish band Marmalade scored eight Top 10 hits in the U.K., one of which topped the chart: a cover of the Beatles’ “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.” But it was their 1969 release, ...

Countless hit vocal recordings include a memorable instrumental solo, but few are defined by them. Gerry Rafferty’s “Baker Street” is one that is. The ex-Stealers Wheel co-leader (“Stuck in the Middle ...

It was a time of change for the power trio from Flint, Mich., of Mark Farner (guitar), Don Brewer (drums) and Mel Schacher (bass). After the just-formed band had played the 1969 Atlanta International ...

Eric Haydock, the bassist who co-founded the British band The Hollies in 1962 and remained in the lineup until 1966, died January 5, 2019. The cause of death was not disclosed but Haydock was known to ...

A new book, fully authorized and produced in official partnership with the Rolling Stones, celebrates their concert career across six continents and more than 2000 shows. The Rolling Stones on Tour: ...

Sometimes, even the most famous musicians want a little anonymity. And often, it’s demanded when they guest on another artist’s record. It could be because they don’t want their light to outshine the ...

The Townshend Tapes Redux, a long-lost 1993 album from veteran rock songwriter, guitarist and cultural historian Jeff Slate ...

The early rock and roll pioneers are typically thought of as hitmakers responsible for jumpstarting a kind of music that’d be more artfully made by others. These artists whose heyday was the 1950s ...