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One night, a man named Michael Franklin called up Jon Anderson, the British vocalist and co-founder of the progressive rock group Yes, and asked him a question. “Where are the […]

For Slash, the party will never stop, but it has slowed down considerably in recent years. One of music’s most notable guitarists, Slash was also known for a long time […]

Calling Brian Wilson “one of rock music’s greatest composers if not its greatest composer” is one of the safest sweeping assertions that you can make. Anyone arguing with it is […]

Earlier this year, the Gin Blossoms went out on a tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of the album that made the band famous: New Miserable Experience. The album is full […]

Willie Nelson wrote the songs “Crazy,” “Funny How Time Slips Away,” and “Night Life” in one week in 1961. He didn’t quite understand what he’d done. He surely did not […]

Back to the ’90s night at TRF also features Young M.C. and Rob Base Rapper Freedom Williams doesn’t have a lot of hits under his belt. But the ones he […]

On the phone, Alice Cooper comes across like the cliché about the kid in the candy store. If you didn’t know he made his living portraying a heavy metal villain, […]

In 1964, Australian animator Ron Campbell received a call in the middle of the night from TV producer Al Brodax. Brodax wondered if Campbell wanted to work on a kids’ […]

Revisit hits from Lloyd Cole’s brief period as a British pop star in the mid- and late 1980s and you may be shocked at how fresh they still sound. Cole’s […]