The '70s legend once used a chainsaw, hammer, and axe to open one of his most experimental songs — and it’s surprisingly ...

Ahram Online highlights a selection of do-not-miss events this week, 26 November - 2 December, in Cairo, Fayoum, and Sharm El ...

Hamilton Camp, half of the folk-music duo Gibson and Camp whose 1961 album, “Live at the Gate of Horn,” became one of the era’s must-have records and who later found steady work as a character actor, ...

To say that Joe Hickerson left his mark on folk music history would be an understatement. In fact, Hickerson is the reason that so much of what is known about folk music exists at all. When he died on ...

And now we'll say goodbye to a musician who didn't really find his audience until years after he had given up trying to reach them. In the mid-1950s, a kid named Tom Rapp finished in third place in a ...

While music sustains so many people just by virtue of joy, new research has found that it can also keep dementia at bay ...

The movies have always loved giving actors the chance to play rock star or impersonate an iconic musician/singer, recreating those famous “Eureka!” studio moments and greatest-hits shows for any ...

Tom Shipley of the 1960s and 1970s folk-rock duo Brewer & Shipley has died at the age of 84, reports the New York Times. Shipley's death on August 24 was confirmed by his son, Marc, to the paper, ...

Elliott Smith performs on stage at Leeds Festival, United Kingdom, 1998. He is playing a Gibson ES330 guitar. (Photo by Martyn Goodacre/Getty Images) As I have already written about a few times during ...

Tom Rapp, a civil rights attorney and musician best known for his late-'60s and early-'70s recordings under the name Pearls Before Swine, has died while in hospice care at his home in Melbourne, Fla., ...

For at least the past decade, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter has been the world’s greatest living entertainer. Who else can annihilate complex dance routines and maintain pristinely powerhouse vocals ...