Caryn Rose

Sam Moore and Dave Prater, otherwise known as the legendary Stax duo Sam & Dave, will be honored at the 2019 Grammy Awards with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Joining Moore and Prater in the Lifetime Achievement class will also be Black Sabbath, George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, Billy Eckstine, Donny Hathaway, Julio Iglesias, and Dionne Warwick. These awards are part of the Recording Academy’s “Special Merit Awards” (AKA the category best understood as, “These artists have not won suff...

Even when Bruce sticks to the script in a playhouse, he can deliver a ranging and intimate performance full of the history and emotion befitting his long career.

On the occasion of the release of U2’s 14th studio album, Songs of Experience, it is worth noting how remarkable it actually is that this band has remained a going concern for over 40 years, since Larry Mullen Jr. put up a notice at Mount Temple Comprehensive School: “Drummer seeks musicians to form band.”

Easter embraces and rebukes rock’n’roll. It’s a love letter and a break-up letter all in one, the album that brought Patti Smith fame, the rebirth of her career, and her most controversial song.

In 1974, a random phrase popped into Bruce Springsteen’s head as he was writing, one that seemed to match the music he was hearing in his mind. It took Springsteen six months to turn that phrase, “Born to Run,” into a song, and it was a watershed moment for his work: the first time he wrote a song with the studio in mind rather than how it would sound onstage.

When Bruce Springsteen decided to go on the road with the E Street Band to tour for Tunnel of Love, he knew that he didn't want to ride in on the coattails of Born in the U.S.A., and he knew he didn't want to be a nostalgia act.

At about 4 a.m. on March 28, 1979, Reactor 2 at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor experienced a failure that led to a partial meltdown. This was (and still remains) the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history. The following month, 65,000 people would march in a protest against nuclear energy in Washington, D.C.; Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash and John Hall would form Musicians United For Safe Energy (M.U.S.E.) and announce two benefit concerts that would take place at Madison Square Garden in September.

Stand Up For Heroes
Featuring Jimmy Carr, Eric Church, Seth Meyers, Jim Gaffigan, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart and Special Guests
At most benefit performances, the shout outs from the stage are at celebrities, actors, models, musicians -- but at Stand Up For Heroes, the props are given to veterans, active duty military, and a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

At Stand Up For Heroes, the evening usually begins with Bob and Lee Woodruff welcoming the donors and the honored guests, both active duty and veterans of the US armed forces. This year, they weren't onstage for more than a few minutes before Bob Woodruff gleefully announced, "Bruce is back!"

When Bruce Springsteen, one of rock 'n' roll's greatest performers, finally released a live album in 1986, the opening track — the first song that your average music fan was presented with as an initial impression — would be a bare-bones version of "Thunder Road."

50 years ago, on Halloween, the MC5 stepped onstage at the Grande Ballroom in their hometown of Detroit and performed a concert that would become their debut album, Kick Out The Jams. This weekend, the Wayne Kramer-led tribute to his former comrades, touring as MC50, returned to the scene of the crime with two sold-out shows in the Motor City: Friday night at the 1,000-capacity St. Andrew’s Hall, and Saturday night at the 2,888-capacity Fill...

Pearl Jam is one of the most dynamic live acts in rock history. Aside from a brief period of revolving drummers, the original lineup of lead singer Eddie Vedder, guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready, bassist Jeff Ament, is still very much together, along with the welcomed 1998 addition of Soundgarden’s Matt Cameron. As wa...

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Released in 1975, Born To Run was Bruce Springsteen‘s last-ditch attempt at stardom. A hemi powered vehicle to transport the New Jersey musician from Asbury Park to rock and roll immortality, and it worked.

Whether you’re lounging in a beach chair, perched under a tree, or taking refuge next to a blasting air conditioner, the summer months offer many opportunities to sit back and read for hours on end. In that spirit, here are some of our favorite recent or soon-to-be-released music books, ranging from expert surveys of jazz and grime to fiction inspired by the sci-fi fabulousness of glam rock.
One night in 2007, an MC clash on UK radio captured two grime factions at war. In one corner was Ghett...