Through the early months of 2016, it sometimes seemed that every time you turned on your computer, looked at your social feeds or picked up a newspaper, another musician had died — including a few who had changed pop music forever. Their obituaries rightly reverberated around the world, as did more…
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10 Best Country Albums of 2016
Country music in 2016 experienced a bit of a personality crisis — on the Nashville side, opening its borders to collaborations with pop stars like Pink, Demi Lovato, Elle King, Gwen Stefani and Pitbull; on the Americana side, expanding on a long-tailed business plan that often meant out-selling the Nashville hits…
After 3 Decades, Metallica Still Does Things Their Way -- And There’s Nothing Wrong With That
Where Metallica is right now, they’ve been before. Back in 1991, they took a sharp turn from their most intricate, convoluted, algebraically advanced, progressively rocking album — 1988’s …And Justice For All [http://us.napster.com/artist/metallica/album/and-justice-for-all-blackened-recordings?ocode=social_user&pcode=social_user&cpath=Link&rsrc=…
Who Are Unlocking The Truth?
Unlocking The Truth [https://www.rhapsody.com/artist/unlocking-the-truth]’s back story is so compelling and unprecedented, it’d be a shame not to let it out of the bag right away: Three African American 14- and 15-year-old friends from Flatbush and Crown Heights, Brooklyn, they’ve been a thrash…
12 Country Albums You Need to Hear
Country music is in the midst of an intriguing season right now — it seems like it’s mostly outgrown its bikini-stalking, beer-chugging, bro-bonding phase, and now the genre’s trying to branch out big time, exploring dance beats like it hasn’t since the early ‘80s post-disco era. It’s…
William Bell and Andre Williams Make More Black History
Veteran rhythm & blues vocalists William Bell and Andre Williams each released new albums as they respectively close in on their 77th and 80th birthdays; they have some things in common but in other ways, they’ve always been poles apart. They each started recording as members of vocal groups six…