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Trying to determine the top five rock guitarists is like trying to establish the top five colors. It can only be done subjectively, and it begs the question -- what…

Did anyone in rock history rise to the big occasion better than Prince? His Super Bowl halftime show in the Miami rain stands as the best has come close to…

Curtis Mayfield's 1975 LP "There's No Place Like America Today" seems to get more attention for its pointed cover image (slightly altered from a 1937 Margaret Bourke-White photo) than its…

They clearly weren't singing about Giuliani, who doesn't do much except fail. He did, however, use this tune as his intro song at campaign rallies when he ran for president…

Some days there's no news peg for the song, and you just get whatever has become my latest earworm. In this case it's this tune, now best known among Northern…

We have entered a world where British tabloids now print the truth in order to dispel internet rumors. Take the case just this week of British musician Alan Price --…

I should have posted this yesterday in advance of the Academy Awards, though the Hollywood Ray Davies was singing about -- most of the stars he names were dead or…

Old school rap lost an influential figure this week. Greg Jacobs, better known as Shock G, the rapper who fronted the Oakland rap collective Digital Underground, was found dead in…

You know rock is over the hill when the lead singer of the first boy band dies at age 65. Les McKeown, the lead singer for the Bay City Rollers…

Why did rock music sputter out after the 1990s? I don't know the answer, but the anti-commercial pose that became de rigueur with punk and extended into the era of…