It feels like only six months since I wrote a piece exploring the best rock books of 2024. Here are ten terrific books from this year. How Does i ...

David Myhr has been serving up some delectable power pop, with a strong dip into Beatlesque flavors. Get to know him.

Somewhere in the middle of his journey from New Waver to Ambient auteur, Jonathan Gregg created a fruitful mix of power pop ...

There are literally hundreds of books about The Beatles. It's hard to narrow them down to the five best, but we had a go.

Beck is one of the most interesting artists of our time. We had a listen to his complex new album, "Ride Lonesome." ...

Andy Kim went from writing bubblegum hits to penning a quirky psychedelic track that still kinda holds up. Here's what ...

Editor’s Note. This post, from way back in 2022, is perfect to bring back in time for Halloween. And if you want to learn more, CultureSonar is hosting a free Fab Four Master Class, “Another Clue for ...

Colm Clark is a freelance writer, musician and composer (a.k.a. Crush Limbo) whose music has appeared in TV and film and whose songs have been sung on New York theater stages. Despite all this (if ...

Editor’s Note: There are certain tracks that are, well, “epic” — memorable, larger than life, carved into music history. In this series, we look at one of them. What do you get when you combine ZZ Top ...

Rockabilly has always been the unruly kid in the rock ’n’ roll family — the one with the greased‑back hair, the twitchy leg, and the grinding guitar. Born in the mid‑1950s, revived with surprising ...

There’s a tale in the Hip-Hop world that tells of a night in the early 1990s when rap mogul Suge Knight dragged rapper Vanilla Ice to a 15th-story hotel balcony and dangled him by his ankles. He ...

For Elton John, 1975 was a peak year in his ascension into the rock and roll stratosphere. His most recent disc, the autobiographical Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, debuted at number one ...