There’s a scene in Wayne’s World in which erstwhile metalheads Wayne and Garth find themselves in front of a blue screen, pretending to travel through major...
Trent Reznor, the lead creative force behind Nine Inch Nails, has graced the Time 100 list of Most Influential People, been inducted into the Rock ‘n’...
Photo Credit: West Kennerly As an artist, Jewel was destined to succeed her own terms. Having grown up in Alaska, without running water or heat...
Photo Credit: Anton Corbijn R.E.M. are recognized as pioneers of the alternative rock genre, influencing peers like Nirvana, Pavement, Wilco and countless others who followed...
By the time 26-year-old Brenton Wood released his debut album, Oogum Boogum, in 1967, he’d been skirting around the edges of the music business for...
The pioneering Canadian Cree musician and social activist Buffy Sainte-Marie first gained prominence as part of Greenwich Village’s early- to mid-’60s folk scene alongside Bob...
Before the anarchic social satire and the infamous “Fish Cheer” (reimagined with an entirely different four-letter word at Woodstock), and before San Francisco’s countercultural scene...
Across four decades, from the 1940s through the 1970s, Bernard Herrmann helped elevate the movie soundtrack to the status of high art. Though, in his...
A must-listen for any serious student of American popular music, Hot Buttered Soul radically expanded the borders of soul and funk and was instrumental in...