The 1950s saw the birth of rock and roll, but these original songs might have been overshadowed by their covers.
Revisiting the story of Cordell Jackson, the Mississippi-born rockabilly songwriter who started her own record label - Moon Records - from her home in Memphis.
The Florida Panthers celebrated the $65 million renovations of the War Memorial Auditorium in Fort Lauderdale with a ribbon cutting on Nov. 13, 2024. Rock singer Melissa Etheridge performed the ...
Garth Hudson, the keyboardist, sax player and archivist for Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Band, died January 21 in his ...
How did Martin Luther King's message get across to America? Partly through pop culture. Music, movies, TV helped spread his ...
In his long-running Village Voice comic strip and in his many plays and screenplays, he took delight in skewering politics, ...
Silk City Chorus and Mosaic embrace modern attire while keeping barbershop music alive, gearing up for their 2025 show, 'A ...
The group's popularity sank when its antiwar songs resurfaced, thanks to an FBI investigation. Here's the Almanac Singers performing ... Seeger founded The Weavers in 1950 with Hays, Ronnie ...
Today in Music History for Jan. 30: In 1917, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band recorded ``Darktown Strutters' Ball.'' Some historians consider this to be the earliest commercially made jazz record. It ...
The Canadian virtuoso, known for his solo on "Chest Fever," gave the group a "sound twice as big" and his mates music lessons ...
Despite decades of band culture, new research suggests that the golden era of rock 'n' roll may be over. Nirvana. Guns N' ...
Hudson’s keyboard was an essential element of the Band's sound on roots-rock classics such as 'The Weight' and 'The Night ...