For much of rock and roll’s history, female artists were viewed as novelty acts or pop acts masquerading as rock and roll. That prejudice still exists, though it is becoming increasingly more ...

Megan Volpert's new book, Why Alanis Morissette Matters, is about how the singer has never put up with bullshit, how the ...

As such, when her 25-year marker rolls around in the relatively near future, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame should be the very first place her name heads. Lorde While I can practically feel the eye ...

Stone changed R&B, soul and rock music forever (while helping to invent funk along the way) with a pop sensibility that few artists have ever even dreamed of.

Sly Stone, the iconic frontman of the band Sly and the Family Stone, and an influential figure in funk, soul and rock, has ...

A handful of songs into Benmont Tench’s recent performance in Chicago, he paused to take inventory before choosing the next number, ticking off the names of the artists on one hand: “Tom, Tom ...

One of the most in-demand session players of the 1960s, Kaye was listed alongside the late record producer Thom Bell and the ...

Rock guitarist Rick Derringer 'received his wings and passed on this Memorial Day,' his caretaker Tony Wilson announced. The 'Hang On Sloopy' singer was 77.

Rick Derringer, the rock legend known for iconic songs including “Hang on Sloopy” and “Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo,” among others, died yesterday (May 26). He was 77 at the time of his death ...

From local Finn Wolfhard to Nine Inch Nails to Nigerian rock band Etran De L’Aïr, a lot of awesome musical acts are ...