Arts and Entertainment

The star of this track is a guy who almost became a Rolling Stone. Wayne Perkins was a session guitarist out of Muscle Shoals, one of a half-dozen or so…

It's hard for those who didn't live through the '60s to appreciate how large the Beatles loomed over pop culture. Not only did their music spawn entire new genres, they…

That Ryan Adams cover of Oasis' "Wonderwall" is great, but it's so gloomy. Paul Anka, on his album of rock covers, gave it a much more upbeat, ring-a-ding-ding reading that…

Ryan Adams has found himself in a world of trouble for something rock stars used to consider one of the perks of the job: Smutting around with underage girls. The…

This song, the highlight of the band's 1971 album "A Space in Time," was by critical consensus the pinnacle of British blues guitarist Alvin Lee's career, though I have to…

Once upon a time in America, people didn't tiptoe around issues of race. The fight for civil rights legislation was hard and bitter, and the racists didn't keep their feelings…

When I got to thinking about bands that sound like throwbacks, I realized that sometimes they do it on purpose -- for example, when a movie is set in the…

Yesterday Jason slagged Greta Van Fleet for sounding "old," because their classic-rock sound and Robert Plant-manque lead singer make them sound like a 50-year-old band, Led Zeppelin. Well, I'm here…

Last night's Grammy Awards got the Song and Record of the Year right -- Childish Gambino's "This Is America" won both -- but no Grammy Awards ceremony would be complete…

With the Grammy Awards on TV tonight, here's a song nominated for song of the year, record of the year and best music video, and it deserves to win all…

Jackson Browne came of age at the dawn of the Southern California singer-songwriter boom, releasing his first album in 1972. This song, with its bouncy beat undercut by bleak, despairing…

With all the controversy over blackface this past week, I thought I'd demonstrate that minstrelsy is anything but gone. Given that it was the most popular form of live entertainment…

Bob Dylan's 30th anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden was 27 years ago now, but this video of the show's climactic number has aged pretty well. Highlights include a typically…