“Get him to come to New York and I’ll sign him.” Those were Blue Note boss Alfred Lion’s words to London record producer Tony Hall
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The Decemberists had nothing to prove when they released their seventh album, What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World, on January 20, 2015. The
Philadelphia soul men the Stylistics were anything but an overnight success story. Formed from members of mid-1960s groups the Percussions and the Monarchs, they first
As a multiple Grammy-winning producer and songwriter whose work has bridged the Spanish and English-language worlds, Rudy Pérez has often been asked to do another
As a pioneer of avant-garde metal, the larger-than-life Rob Zombie has achieved more than your average heavy metal musician. Born on January 12, 1965 and
There are many albums on which the Beach Boys underlined that they were an immensely creative collective, and far from being entirely reliant on the
Peggy Lee wasn’t the first to record Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s “I’m A Woman,” but when she did, she owned it entirely. A classic
As The Ed Sullivan Show was to the US, or Der Musikladen (follow-up to Beat-Club) was to Germany, so Top Of The Pops was to
It’s hard to think of American rock’n’roller Ritchie Valens without remembering the tragic early death that befell him. He was taken at just 17 in
The most important thing to understand about Barbara Mandrell is that she was a musical prodigy. Prodigy is, after all, the term most people would