The Grammy Award–winning bandleader for The Roots spoke with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about his film on the funk musician who led Sly & the Family Stone in the 1960s and '70s.
If the Eagles won the Super Bowl, then the next Amplifier playlist would be made up entirely of songs by artists from Philadelphia. The football gods upheld their end of this bargain — in case you ...
EXCLUSIVE: As NBC prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, it’s interesting to recall the show’s second official musical guest – singer-songwriter Janis Ian. On October 11, ...
According to The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, Little Eva’s “The Loco-Motion” topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a week in 1962. The track’s success was not a huge surprise. Early 1960s radio was ...
Love might be the most universal emotion to write about, but these songs are one of the flimsiest, creepiest, or downright gross ways of capturing romance.
John Lennon didn't have the big-bang decade-opening album like his former bandmate George Harrison. He didn't turn to more homespun music like Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Instead, he simply bared ...