Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups

Rihanna invites you into her world with this stunning visual autobiography It's a piece of art that I am really proud of... Rihanna From her Barb...

Named one of the worlds great blues-rock guitarists by Rolling Stone, Mike Bloomfield (19431981) remains beloved by fans forty years after his unti...

Whether in Yes, Asia, GTR, ABWH, Tomorrow or the Steve Howe Trio and there's more Steve Howe has continually proved himself to be one of the worl...

When Twin Peaks debuted on the ABC network on the night of April 8, 1990, thirty-five million viewers tuned in to some of the most unusual televisi...

Passionate and pioneering, Liszts biography of Chopin flaunts its authors celebrity while straddling the divide between the scholarly and the popul...

When Mark Murphy died in October 2015, the world lost one of the greatest jazz singer in history. Murphy was the last of his kind, a hipster of the...

In recent years, Björks artistry has become ever more ambitious and ever more respected. With the release of her conceptual app-album Biophilia in ...

Making headlines when it was launched in 2015, Omiseeke Tinsleys undergraduate course Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism has inspired students from...

'The thought behind this book is not just me wanting to tell my story in the standard autobiographical fashion but to create a kind of self-help bo...

Geechi Suede and Sonny Cheeba are Camp Lo. These two emcees from the Bronx, NY entered the American hip hop scene with an insider slang that bewild...

The Drive-By Truckers Southern Rock Opera takes listeners on a road trip through the American South, with stops along mean old highways and soul-su...

`Heroic and absurd, scurrilous and profound, Who Killed Mister Moonlight? charts the descent of four intelligent young men with faces like ruby-eye...

On May 8, 1977, at Barton Hall, on the Cornell University campus, in front of 8,500 eager fans, the Grateful Dead played a show so significant that...

Since she rose to international fame in 1985 with her seminal Irish jazz album Tired and Emotional, Mary Coughlan's battles with addiction, the pro...

Susan's mother, Lucy Fowler née Smetana, was a Viennese Jew who fled to Nottingham, England, in 1938 to flee Nazi persecution. She lost most of her...

American composer Lou Harrison (19172003) is perhaps best known for challenging the traditional musical establishment along with his contemporaries...

American composer Lou Harrison (19172003) is perhaps best known for challenging the traditional musical establishment along with his contemporaries...

In 1963, it was unusual for a pop group to have a monthly magazine devoted exclusively to their career. Only Elvis Presley had been considered impo...

Obituaries of performers and filmmakers, musicians and producers, dancers and composers, writers and others associated with the performing arts who...

The entertainment world lost several legendary stars and a host of other men and women involved in the performing arts in 2012. Notables who died i...

Fear of Music, the third album by Talking Heads, was recorded and released in 1979. It is, like each of their first four albums, a masterpiece. Edg...

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (17821871), the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled ...

Within one of the most complex musical categories yet to surface, Cal Tjader quietly pioneered the genre as a jazz vibraphonist, composer, arran...

If any band deserves to have homage paid to them with a lavish, limited edition photographic book, look no further than Blue Oyster Cult. With thei...

The Wild Tchoupitoulas is a definitive expression of the modern New Orleans sound. From Hey Pocky A-Way to Big Chief Got a Golden Crown, the al...