The great drummer Art Blakey was born on Oct. 11, 1919 in Pittsburgh. Here his band — Art Blakey’s Jazz Messingers — plays Moanin’ in...
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The Rolling Stones have released a new song for the first time in six years. Gloom and Doom, according to Consequence of Sound, is one of two new songs that...
From Wikipedia: Talking Heads was an American New Wave and avant-garde band formed in 1975 in New York City[1] and active until 1991. The band comprised David...
This Day in Music and Wikipedia contribute details to the story of the birth on this day in 1902 by Orville Gibson of “The Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co...
Here is a bio on Bo Diddley: Born Otha Ellas Bates (later known as Ellas McDaniel), 28 December 1928, McComb, Mississippi, USA. After beginning his career as a...
Rolling Stone covered the press conference on the opening of the film Celebration Day, which looks at Led Zeppelin’s 2007 reunion concert at the O2 arena in...
Jimmie Rodgers was an important figure in country music despite the fact that he only lived until his mid thirties. The first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry...
Staffers at Cobble Hill Health Center in Brooklyn, NY, say that music soothes and improves the mood of people in the mid to late-stages of Alzheimer’s...
For Columbus Day, here is a look at some folks who came to America and thrived. Black 47 has been playing around New York City for years. Here is a bit of its...
Without doubt, the most surprising thing I’ve learned during the seven or so months I’ve been doing this website is that Norah Jones is Ravi...
