All Along the Watchtower” remains the most-played from Bob Dylan’s enormous catalog, and his live take has long leaned heavily on Jimi Hendrix’s 1968 adaptation, which reimagined Dylan’s anxious poem ...

Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey that would forever ...

Joe Bonamassa has a term for those albums that changed music’s landscape. He calls them “pre/post records.” “Like Eric ...

Elton John is enjoying a return to the top of the UK album chart, with a record first released in 2017. The BBC reports that ...

Mary Weiss, lead singer with ‘60s girl group the Shangri-Las, died in January at the age of 75. The quartet formed in 1963 ...

When a songwriter is looking for inspiration for a new recording, sometimes the best thing to do is look to another for help.

To mark the start of 2025, we surveyed critics, editors and writers to determine the best (or at least their best) books from the last 25 years. Let the debates begin. My Year of Rest and ...

In an on-demand economy, the kind of experience the shop offers is rare — and has cultivated a thriving bluegrass community ...