Jim Steinman, Master of ExcessAt his best, humor and his natural talents came together — most often in the work of Meat Loaf — to create ineffable moments of pop and rock grandeur.
The New Punctual Guns N’ RosesAxl, Slash, & Co. are back together, on tour, and finally doing what they should have been doing for the last two decades.
The New Punctual Guns N’ RosesAxl, Slash, & Co. are back together, on tour, and finally doing what they should have been doing for the last two decades.
Remembering Merle HaggardMerle Haggard was so talented he could float through a half-dozen genres (and generations) of country music and somehow always retain the respect of virtually all of his fellows.
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Remembering George Martin, Architect of the BeatlesIf the pop world was considered an Inferno, then Martin was a Virgilian figure to the four young men — in various senses their leader, their teacher, their master.
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10 Thoughts on David BowieI think in the end, Bowie’s greatest legacy will have been an extension of this: expanding the rock world — its music, its vocabulary, its worldview.
Why Taylor Swift Is Nuts for Leaving SpotifyAs we’ve seen over the past 15 years, the decisions record labels make are quite often not in the best interests of their customers, their artists, or, in the end, themselves.
