Singer-songwriter and guitarist Bobby Womack was born on this day in 1944. His multi-decade career shapes many of the careers of others.

While most associate “The Twist” with Chubby Checker today, there are quite a few other hit rock and roll songs that can be ...

Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke ...

McDonald was a longtime presence in the Bay Area music scene, where peers included the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane and his onetime girlfriend, Janis Joplin.

The heat was on. The label expected. And so, in 1986, the Bangles did what the Bangles did best – they put together a set of ...

At a gala concert, musicians were supported by star-studded hosts including Whoopi Goldberg and Bill Murray — on cowbell.

See Mavis Staples, Hozier, Elvis Costello, and Warren Haynes sing the Band's "The Weight" at the Love Rocks NYC benefit concert.