Popular music is rife with songs inspired by romantic partnerships, but one of mankind’s greatest muses is our four-legged friends. We’ve highlighted the best songs about dogs to mark the
Do you know who was the bestselling female artist in America of the 1950s? If you’re thinking it might be Connie Francis, or Sarah Vaughan, or Teresa Brewer, think again.
Like any legendary record label worthy of its legacy, Fania Records was particularly attuned to both great music and savvy self-promotion. So when it initially assembled the cream of its
The Isle of Wight Festival is one of the most famous music festivals in UK history, an event that has gone down in the history of rock and popular music.
Bobby Womack could make anything soulful, and not just on his own compositions. The storied R&B singer from Cleveland is remembered for any number of self-written classics, from “Lookin’ For
In jazz, as in most music, the bass is the bottom line. It’s both part of the rhythmic foundation of the music (along with the drums) and the sonic glue
Given Garbage’s grunge-adjacent beginnings, it would’ve been easy to group them in with other alternative acts that dominated the mid-90s pop music scene. But the quartet, fronted by Scottish singer
Two hundred thousand fans came to pay their respects to Sam Cooke at a memorial service in Chicago after his death, shot at the age of 33 by a frightened
10cc were already a refreshingly inventive force in the UK singles chart when, on August 26, 1973, the quartet made their live debut together. Graham Gouldman, Kevin Godley, Eric Stewart,
Grammy Award-winning artist Sean Paul was honored with the ‘Entertainer’s Key to the City’ of New York on Saturday. The recognition came during the third annual ‘Rise Up NYC’ concert