In 2020, live music, along with the rest of the world, went into lockdown. With tours cancelled and no shows to review, ...

Metallica's lead guitarist, who has a new book out called 'The Collection: Kirk Hammett,' looks back at his career in our in-depth new interview.

Bands not solo acts; debut album released before 1980 (about when the classic rock radio format began); three or more studio ...

Despite Metallica being known for all things thrash, Lars Ulrich had a much deeper variety of rock in his personal music collection.

Bassist Cris Kirkwood and drummer Derrick Bostrom met in high school in Phoenix and started their first punk band, Atomic ...

Black Sabbath announced “Back to the Beginning,” a homecoming show and farewell to the four fathers of heavy metal. On Jul. 5 ...

Marsalis leads a take on Keith Jarrett’s 1974 LP “Belonging,” and Lehman interprets “The Music of Anthony Braxton,” revealing ...

Selena and Benny really had no choice but to make this album, since they’ve already consummated their romance in the most public and official way — eating spicy wings on their instant-classic episode ...

George Harrison is as foundational to electronic music as Black Sabbath is to metal. Welcome to No Skips, the weekly column where we take an album track by track to see if any tracks are skippable or ...

King Creature were catapulted into the limelight as the opening act for Motörhead in 2015 at The Eden Sessions. Since then, ...

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Kanye West’s innovative use of samples was one of the hallmarks of his early hits — his slowed-down snippets of songs from ...