YouTube video by Stereogum

Tom Morello’s Power to the People festival has expanded an already packed lineup with Nathaniel Rateliff, Stephen Stills, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler, State Radio, Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian and The Last Internationale. The one-day event takes place October 3 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. The additions join […]

YouTube video by Legacy.com

The soprano voice heard soaring above the Motown classics “Dancing in the Street” and “Nowhere to Run” belonged to Rosalind Ashford, a founding member of Martha and the Vandellas whose vocal range set her apart from the very start of the group’s career. Ashford died on September 15, 2026, at the age of 83. Born […]

By 1974, Bruce Springsteen had shipped two albums that critics genuinely loved and the record-buying public genuinely ignored. Columbia had already funded two commercial disappointments and, reasonably enough, wasn’t lining up to fund a third. If you’ve ever sat across from a nervous board wondering how many more quarters of “the reviews were great, though” […]

Devo began as a theory before it ever became a band, which is a fairly unusual way to build a career in rock and roll. The name itself is shorthand for de-evolution, a concept dreamed up by art students Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis at Kent State University, built on the idea that humanity was […]

Haruomi Hosono has shared “Sincerely,” the latest song from his 23rd studio album, ‘Yours Sincerely,’ arriving September 11 via Ghostly International. Listen here. The new single follows “Note of Mothership” and finds Hosono revisiting the 1954 doo-wop classic originally recorded by The Moonglows. Rather than simply recreating the song, he has rewritten the lyrics in […]