With his off-kilter sensibility and deep musical grounding, he brought attention to New Wave and alternative artists at the groundbreaking station KROQ.
Category: Pop and Rock Music
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David Briggs, a Music Force in Alabama and Nashville, Dies at 82
A first-call keyboardist, he worked with Elvis Presley and Dolly Parton, helped make Muscle Shoals a recording hub, and had a key role in redefining the sound of country.
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Lorde Returns With a Nostalgic Breakup Anthem, and 9 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Haim, Young Thug, Cazzu and others.
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Maggie & Terre Roche’s 1975 LP Is a Revelation. Why Is It Forgotten?
“Seductive Reasoning,” a flop that preceded the Roches’ debut, has a fluctuating sonic palette, contributions from Paul Simon and the sisters’ most brilliant songwriting.
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Roy Thomas Baker, Who Helped Produce ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ Dies at 78
Among the most successful music producers in the 1970s and ’80s, he helped churn out hits for acts like Queen, the Cars, Journey and Foreigner.
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Tina Knowles, Mother of Superstars, Owns Her Own Story
“Matriarch,” a memoir out Tuesday, explores the trials and hard-worn triumphs that shaped Beyoncé and Solange Knowles’s mom.
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How Japanese Engineering Transformed Pop Music
How Japanese ingenuity transformed Western music from within.
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How Japanese Superfans Redefined What It Means to Be Obsessed
Otaku, people for whom hero worship is a way of life, have changed everyone’s relationship to the culture.
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Goose Rules the Jam-Band Roost (Sorry, Haters)
The quartet earned the respect of its elders and scores of young fans by making their live sets, and themselves, super available. So why are some still not sold?
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Mac Gayden, Stellar Nashville Guitarist and Songwriter, Dies at 83
Heard on Bob Dylan’s “Blonde on Blonde” among other albums, he also sang and was a writer of the perennial “Everlasting Love.”