R&B legend Chris Jasper died on Feb. 24. He was 73. His family announced the news on his Facebook, noting that he was ...

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With their shared fascination with ideas and forming new shapes, David Cronenberg and Howard Shore are one of cinema’s most adventurous director-composer partnerships. Here we explore their fertile ...

It has been a heartbreaking year for for the music world in 2025, as several legends have already died or have been touched ...

The women behind ‘Eternal Flame’ and ‘Manic Monday’ were among the most successful – and history-making – pop groups of the ...

Radio X takes a trip back to the year of Elephant Stone, Wrote For Luck, Destroy The Heart, Suedehead and more.

In the autumn of 1989, just six months after their irrepressibly ­pretty Eternal Flame had hit the top of the charts the ...

Quite a few rock stars from the 1980s seemingly disappeared without a trace. Let's find out where a few of them went.

Here are the 55 best metal covers of classic rock hits. Playing covers, or even just riffs from your favorite songs is how so many musicians and bands start off. And even as careers progress and ...

Judy Garland's "Over The Rainbow" was voted Song Of The Century; Ace of Base hit No. 1; Pete Doherty was born; Paul married Linda; the U.S. charts got Rick-rolled for realsies; R.E.M. dropped “Out of ...

Jon Pareles has been The Times’s chief pop music critic since 1988. He studied music, played in rock, jazz and classical groups and was a college-radio disc jockey. He was previously an editor ...

“He sang one of our songs ... was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo act in 1999 by Neil Young. The Beatles were inducted as a group in 1988, their first year of eligibility.