Billy Joel has been a child of the piano since he started, but he knew that this guitarist's unconventional approach was from another planet.

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In the world of music, popularity is often a poor metric for power. There is a specific class of artist known as the 'musician's musician': bands that laboured in relative obscurity, played to empty ...

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions comes up with an epic extraterrestrial playlist for Earth’s first contact from beyond the stars This week’s new question: ...

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The latest film of the wildly successful spinoff franchise ushers the Minions into a new era of cultural ubiquity, while bringing some new creative juice. By Brandon Yu Millie Bobby Brown shines as ...

Your favorite band is probably overrated. From bloated stadium fillers to pretentious poets, we name the icons who stayed too ...

The Telluride Bluegrass Festival launched in 1974 as an out-of-the-way town party for locals on the Fourth of July. A year ...

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Dennis Bovell’s youthful exuberance belies a long and distinguished career taking in some surprisingly far-flung corners of the music industry. Responsible for more or less inventing the lovers rock ...