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The last surviving original member of the Band died on Tuesday. He was a master on keys and saxophones who could conjure a panoply of scenes and eras. Ever so [...]

Jerry Garcia died in 1995. The band bade fans farewell in 2015. This weekend, Dead & Company will close out its Final Tour. Why can't we stop quitting one of [...]

Forty years after the musician's death, a writer revisits conversations with the former Beatle about the long period of seclusion and self-reflection that inspired his breakthrough as a solo artist, [...]

LONDON -- In 1996, the rock star Prince released the album ''Emancipation,'' his first record since the end of a rancorous contractual dispute with his label, Warner Bros. In a [...]

Tom Petty, who died on Monday, was one of the quintessential American rock stars of the late 20th century. The remarkable streak of hit singles he wrote and recorded between [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDDavid Bowie made pop of impassioned critical distance. He told a good musical story by standing outside of it and knew how to make you think about the artist's [...]

35 Years Ago John Lennon would have turned 75 on Friday. He was two months past his 40th birthday when he was murdered as he entered his apartment building, the [...]

''It is a pretty momentous occasion,'' Sean Eden of Luna calmly observed between songs at the band's concert on Thursday evening in McCarren Park in Greenpoint. It was a homecoming [...]

The words ''I'm not that interested in guitars'' sound strange coming from Pat Metheny, a 20-time Grammy-winning guitarist. But he can explain. ''Musical instruments are just tools,'' Mr. Metheny said [...]

The first time Moses Sumney, a rising young musician, played a Sofar Sounds show, the greenroom was someone's bedroom. There was no bar, only tap water from the kitchen, and [...]

A couple of years ago, when the Pixies were almost 300 concerts into their second life as reunited heroes of alternative rock, they played a casino in Canada. The symbolism [...]

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. -- He was that impossible rarity in modern music, a figure at once indelibly international and utterly local, whose shows in his hilltop barn drew fans and musicians [...]

It's the year of the woozy in indie rock, the time to get lost. Everywhere, everywhere is sludge. The haze began a few years ago as a response to a [...]

Reunited and it feels so good: four members of the vintage-1990s rock band Hole, which never got along as smoothly as any Peaches & Herb song, are planning to reconvene [...]

A look back at the hours and days after the death of a music legend. Above, thousands of mourners gathered at Central Park West and 72nd Street on Dec. 14, [...]

Tokyo JOHN and I are in our Dakota kitchen in the middle of the night. Three cats -- Sasha, Micha and Charo -- are looking up at John, who is [...]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Jerry Moss has survived cancer. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is a Bronx native who went to college in [...]

WASHINGTON It's the Year of the Woman, all right. In a bad way. Some of the women running in high-profile races are not my cup of Tea. And some of [...]

FROM his home in Queens last week, Monte Melnick remembered a time the Ramones stopped for gas in rural Texas. It was the early days of punk rock, and the […]