Pop, Rock

Wanda Jackson’s debut single, ‘You Can’t Have My Love, ‘ reached the Top 10 while she was still a sixteen-year-old high school student. She hit the road after graduation, playing package shows with C …

‘Hey, you! Beautiful!’ The voice was compelling—an order. So I turned around. ‘Yeah, you, ’ he said. ‘What are you doing in here? You look normal.’ ‘I am, ’ I said. Bettye Kronstad met Lou Reed in 19 …

In September 1967, the Beatles came to Tonypandy, South Wales, and spent six days with Tom Morris of 23 Upper Chemical Terrace … In August 1967, the Beatles were stunned by the death of their manager …

John Mayall’s story is like no other in the annals of rock and blues. Born in the UK in 1933, he laid the foundations of British blues, nurtured a generation of future superstars and then took the mu …

‘It’s amazing that this style came to be. Can you imagine being a struggling musician back then? It must take an incredible amount of restraint to play that gently.’ — Actor/comedian Fred Armisen, fr …

Before #Me Too, before Riot Grrl, there was Lydia Lunch.   A central figure in the No Wave scene of the seventies—as founder of the seminal Teenage Jesus & The Jerks—Lunch has pursued a fourdeca …

‘When I first heard about this Faith No More biography, I didn’t know what to think. But I have to give credit where it is due, it’s a quality piece. The man has done his research and it shows. It pr …

A new year for David Bowie means new clothes, new boots, new hair and a new name: Ziggy Stardust. To the gloomy blacked-out Britain of powercuts and three-day weeks he may as well be from outer space …

“Mick is able to weave together what can only be referred to as the most complete and accurate portrait on the band ever published. Yes it is THAT good and that well researched! . . . Thorough resear …

Rock and roll-rebellious, individualistic, explosive-seems incongruent with modern Chinese society. Red Rock looks at the people and events that have created Chinese rock’s unique identity and tracks …