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 ...

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.

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

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

Beck is one of the most interesting artists of our time. We had a listen to his complex new album, "Ride Lonesome." ...

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.

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 ...

Coldplay has become an increasingly polarizing band but it’s worth remembering that before their collaborations with Avicii and Tove Lo, the group represented a very different brand of alternative ...

Who’s to say what will fan the flames of inspiration? John Wozniak, lead singer for the alterna-rock band Marcy Playground, was cavorting with his girlfriend in her college dorm room in the late 1980s ...