There’s a league of musicians whose deaths have felt particularly earth-shattering, because of a naïve, but widely shared, presumption that they would simply live on forever. That pantheon includes – ...

How does one approach a Thelonious Monk tribute recording? Does the pianist sound like Monk? Truthfully, it is rare for a musician to replicate the high priest of bebop's distinctive and eccentric ...

Joe Strummer, frontman for the groundbreaking punk band the Clash, died at his farmhouse in southern England on December 22nd. He was fifty. According to Trisha Simonon, the wife of Clash bassist Paul ...

Professor of music and director of the music program and Adelphian Concert Choir J. Bruce Rodgers in his first year of teaching at the College of Puget Sound, 1952-1953. We see him here in his ...

The UK’s Museum of Popular Music, British Music Experience (BME) in Liverpool, has announced a new temporary exhibition celebrating 70 years of the Official Singles Chart. The installation, in ...

4:13 p.m. Feb. 6, 2024: An earlier version of this article misspelled the last name of Larry L. Burriss, the co-author of a 2001 book on music industry controversies, as Burris. Few people outside the ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Who: Singer, harmonica player, bandleader, songwriter. Claim to fame: Mainstay on Birmingham's music scene for more than 20 years. Respected bluesman was colorful character, ...

Guy-Marc Hinant gives a brief German history lesson in his third A-Chronology of noise and electronic artists for Belgian avant-electronica label Sub Rosa. For the non-Germanic material, Hinant offers ...

Church music in its present state calls for neither pride nor optimism, according to Archibald T. Davison '06, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music. His book entitled "Church Music," just published ...

Sean Rowe’s debut album on Anti Records is aptly titled Magic. A naturalist, Rowe connects his rich, unnerving baritone to moments of childhood innocence in his storytelling lyrics; as a child, he ...

Few people outside the music industry may know the name Chuck Philips, but few inside the industry will forget it. As the leading music industry investigative reporter of his generation and a mainstay ...

For the first time since the late Artur Schnabel’s memorable performances of 1932, all 32 of the Beethoven piano sonatas have been recorded (for Decca) by one man. The pianist: Germany’s Wilhelm ...