David Peel was a street musician who cozied up to John Lennon in NYC. One persistent teen wanted to meet him. And did.

Happy Halloween! Before Alice Cooper, Screaming Lord Sutch was blending horror with rock n' roll to the point where the BBC ...

There is a fascinating 1963 photo of Bob Dylan in which he’s standing on a NYC rooftop gazing off beyond the horizon. With his long sleeves cuffed, his fingers in his pockets, and legs astride, he ...

David Myhr has been serving up some delectable power pop, with a strong dip into Beatlesque flavors. Get to know him.

How is it almost the end of 2026? It feels like only six months since I wrote a piece exploring the best rock books of 2024.

Somewhere in the middle of his journey from New Waver to Ambient auteur, Jonathan Gregg created a fruitful mix of power pop ...

Colm Clark is a freelance writer, musician and composer (a.k.a. Crush Limbo) whose music has appeared in TV and film and whose songs have been sung on New York theater stages. Despite all this (if ...

There are literally hundreds of books about The Beatles. It's hard to narrow them down to the five best, but we had a go.

Instrumental songs have been with us for a long time, having their roots in the classical music world. Although popular music would follow the path established by opera (bringing songs with vocals and ...

On February 15, 1977, the red dirt of northeast Georgia sprouted something entirely unexpected: a musical revolution. The night before, in the tiny farming town of Athens, a local band called the ...

In January of 2000, Bass Player magazine devoted an issue of their publication to the evolution of the bass guitar during the 20th century. Divided into chapters, each section focused on a decade ...