Long the topic of debate as to rock 'and' roll's origins, one Delta blues legend Howlin' Wolf record has been put forward as the genre's first possible cut.

Tull’s leader thought using the 5/4 rhythm from Brubeck’s “Take Five” would be commercial suicide, but listeners proved him ...

Director Ryan Coogler and composer Ludwig Göransson met in film school at USC. Their latest collaboration, an explosive mix ...

As Mick Fleetwood said himself, without Peter Green, there would be no Fleetwood Mac. Christine McVie even likened him to “Jesus”. Green laid the foundations for what was to come by embodying the ...

With “Sinners,” filmmaker Ryan Coogler creates a big, flawed, juicy blues folktale of Black enterprise vs. vampires, literal ...

The vintage guitar dealer has once again put the spotlight on young Charlotte Milstein, who paid homage to a number of blues ...

Blues Old Stand’s road-honed sound, as heard on their self-titled 1994 debut album, evoked a mix of WAR, Funkadelic and Jimi ...

Blues guitarist Chris Cain can vividly recall a memorable night back in the early 1990s at The Decade, an old club in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood. Actually what happened after the show proved to ...

The Waterboys frontman on his adopted home and the band’s ambitious new album, based on the life and times of the Hollywood maverick Dennis Hopper ...

Distorted guitar tones have come to represent the sound of rock music ever since the early days of overdriven tube amp tones, which were first used by blues players of the 1940s and '50s.

A militant leader from Mali championed a rock band and helped write a hit song before leading an Islamist army that killed tens of thousands.

The award-winning pianist and band leader has been hailed as one of San Diego’s cultural icons. She toured Europe multiple ...