Most great bands boast iconic songwriting partnerships. In the case of the Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney are ...

Veteran Akron singer-songwriter Tracey Thomas will celebrate her latest album “Words Can’t Save Us Now” and memoir, “Little ...

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, whom I was fortunate enough to interview and is now in his 90s, told me that he was playing in the ...

The freewheelin' Oscar nominee turned double-duty ‘SNL’ host honored Bob's contrarian legacy by playing songs Dylan's casuals ...

This seems to be the case for everyone — well, everyone except Dorothy Martin. Each year, the fiery frontwoman of eponymous ...

The Maui Arts & Cultural Center presents iconic reggae band UB40 featuring original founding member Ali Campbell, returning ...

[RELATED: Chrissie Hynde Apologizes to Fans After Divisive ... took place on December 5 at the Roundhouse in London. Hynde sang three songs at the event, which also featured Depeche Mode’s ...

It was a dark time when FM radio wallowed in narrow, whitewashed, corporate-mandated playlists. Pop music stations rotated the same dozen force-fed hits and nothing but. Country music outlets played ...

The song is heard at the end of the film ... It took further convincing by the label and The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde (then the wife of Jim Kerr, Simple Minds’ lead singer) to agree ...

“Chrissie Hynde doesn’t have any nicknames listed in the sources, but here are some other facts about her: In 1985, Hynde sang on the British reggae-pop band UB40’s cover of ‘I Got You Babe’. The song ...

From sorrowful mourning to polemical rage, these songs deal with the death of the civil-rights icon in moving, revelatory ways. King’s celebrated “I have a dream” speech has been sampled by ...

Meanwhile, in London’s West End, ‘The Battle’, a new play for 2025, charts the bands’ rivalry from that memorable summer.