After the MTV live music series Unplugged launched on November 26, 1989, with a show featuring Squeeze, Syd Straw and Elliot Easton, it took considerable time for it to settle its format and find an ...

Essra Mohawk, a singer-songwriter whose compositions were covered by everyone from the Shangri-Las and the Vanilla Fudge to Cyndi Lauper and Tina Turner, died today (Dec. 11, 2023), of ...

Stevie Wonder celebrated the 50th anniversary of 1976's 'Songs in the Key of Life' with a 4-song EP featuring previously ...

Rod Stewart announced his final rock tour, on Sept. 28, 2026. In August, the legendary rocker cancelled dates following heart ...

Billy Joel's 1976 album, Turnstiles, is getting a 50th anniversary edition, a newly expanded 4-CD + Blu-ray boxed set, on Dec ...

U2 has announced a 16th studio album, Carnaval De Luz, their first of new material in nine years. The title features what is said to be the final recording by Dolly Parton, on a duet with Bono called ...

Ah, those cute and fuzzy Beatles and their lovey-dovey songs: “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (“Yeah, you got that something”); “She Loves You” (“yeah, yeah, yeah”); “Yesterday” (“I believe in…”). Even ...

No one in the history of L.A. radio has done more to promote the music throughout Southern California—and indeed, the world—than Art Laboe. Laboe died Oct. 7, 2022, in Palm Springs, Calif., after ...

The progressive rock band Nektar consisted entirely of Britons, but it achieved its greatest commercial successes in Germany (where it formed) and America. The group’s fan base burgeoned after the ...

Neil Diamond‘s career ascent was meteoric. In just a few years time, he had evolved from a mid-20s songwriter honing his craft at New York’s famed Brill Building, penning the occasional hit for such ...