Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups

I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and played g...

Twenty years after its release, Phishs double-CD collection A Live One has something rare and precious going for it: it still doesnt sound like any...

Streisand: A Biography is much more than the story of the world's greatest living performer, how she got there, and why she remains at the top afte...

The Beatles' sixth studio album ÊRubber SoulÊ was a game changer. By December 1965 when the album was released the Beatles had played the first...

In the years following the 1960s Beatle fans around the world were twice-stunned: in 1970 when their beloved group disbanded and ten years later...

ABBA blasted their way onto the global pop scene with a Eurovision Song Contest win in 1974. The song, 'Waterloo', the band's tenth single, was a t...

This is Martha Wainwrights heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce,...

Smile is not merely a great unfinished album, but a living work of art that is all at once expansive, indeterminate, and resolutely pop. In the ea...

This book marks the tenth anniversary of The Grey Album. The online release and circulation of what Danger Mouse called his art project' was an une...

In 1935 the French baritone Pierre Bernac formed a duo with the composer Francis Poulenc that became a legend throughout the world. Unprecedented i...

A Midsummer Night''s Dream was Benjamin Britten''s seventh major opera and had its premiere at Aldeburgh in 1960. Britten and his partner Peter Pea...

Pauline García Viardot, the daughter of the famous singer and composer Manuel García and younger sister of the celebrated Malibran, was a singer of...

One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a pop music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites - a...

How are conductors' silent gestures magicked into sound by a group of more than a hundred brilliant but belligerent musicians? The mute choreograph...

Adele needs no introduction. From humble beginnings she has come to be a globally recognized icon. Her first album shot her to fame and the second ...

Franz Schubert's Winterreise is at the same time one of the most powerful and one of the most enigmatic masterpieces in Western culture. In his new...