Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen started out as a poet and novelist before turning to music as the main vehicle for expressing his literary, darkly romantic vision. In songs hushed and...
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The Ramones form one of the three pillars of punk, along with the Sex Pistols and the Clash, and the debut albums from each band lie at the heart of...
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“I am not a crook.” Thus speaks Richard Nixon, six months to the day after the start of the Watergate hearings in the U.S. Senate. Unrelated to the Watergate crisis,...
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Truly, I shouldn’t really care much for Al Green’s music. When it comes to a choice between slow songs and fast songs, for example, I almost always prefer the fast...
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Not only were Sly and the Family Stone a model of diversity, they put out some of the best, most influential music of their time. Like their personnel (black and...
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The band Heart is known to most of us simply as Ann and Nancy Wilson, plus a bunch of dudes. In fact, the dudes came first, back when they were...
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Founded by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein, Blondie got their start in the mid-‘70s New York City new wave scene. While their early work showed a marked punk...
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At their peak, ZZ Top—Texas’s greatest unabashed promoters of good, thoroughly unclean fun—proved themselves more than capable of laying down infectious boogie-rock grooves over playfully provocative lyrics that drip with...
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