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Guitarist Link Wray Dies | ARTICLE
Link Wray, the electric guitar innovator who is often credited as the father of the power chord, died earlier this month at his home in Copenhagen, apparently of natural causes. He was seventy-six. He may have...
November 21, 2005 1:32 PM ET -
New Orleans' Hottest Musical Exports | ARTICLE
A powerful case could be made for New Orleans as the true birthplace of rock & roll. As insular and self-sufficient as its music scene has always been, its reach is incredible. Not just Elvis, the Beatles...
September 26, 2005 12:00 AM ET -
Gatemouth Brown Dies | ARTICLE
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, perhaps the most versatile of all blues-based musicians, died Saturday at age eighty-one of complications from lung cancer and heart disease. A longtime resident of Slidell, Louisiana, just outside New Orleans, the Blues Foundation...
September 12, 2005 12:00 AM ET -
Red Sox's Arroyo Pitches for Grunge | ARTICLE
Bronson Arroyo is making almost $2 million this year pitching for the World Champion Boston Red Sox. With his team in first place, poised for another run at the playoffs, Arroyo's debut CD Covering the Bases, a...
August 8, 2005 12:00 AM ET -
Little Milton Dies at 70 | ARTICLE
Blues Hall of Famer Little Milton, who combined the tough electric blues sound of the early 1950s with the punchy, showtime arrangements of R&B, soul and funk, died in Memphis yesterday (August 4) of complications from two...
August 5, 2005 12:00 AM ET -
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2005: Percy Sledge | ARTICLE
Percy Sledge's very first recording was far and away his biggest, but what a recording it was. The yearning, churchy ballad "When a Man Loves a Woman" was a Number One smash in 1966, and the...
March 8, 2005 12:00 AM ET -
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2005: The O'Jays | ARTICLE
They're the most successful group to emerge from the classic Philly Soul scene of the 1970s, but they're not actually from Philadelphia. The O'Jays hail from Canton, Ohio, home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame....
March 8, 2005 12:00 AM ET -
Hunter S. Thompson Dies | ARTICLE
Hunter S. Thompson, the dean of gonzo journalism and a longtime contributor to Rolling Stone, died Sunday in his Colorado home of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was sixty-seven. Thompson gave the phrase "fear and...
February 21, 2005 12:00 AM ET -
U2 to Enter Rock Hall | ARTICLE
Their cross-promotional campaign with iPod has reestablished U2 as the planet's biggest rock band. Now, capping an already huge commercial season for the anthemic Irish foursome, Bono and his bandmates will join the all-time greats in the...
December 13, 2004 12:00 AM ET -
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The Dells | ARTICLE
The Dells, the pride of Harvey, Illinois, had a smash R&B hit with "Oh, What a Nite" in 1956. Thirteen years later, the group cut the song again and hit the Top Ten on the pop charts. Perhaps...
February 25, 2004 12:00 AM ET -
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2004: Bob Seger | ARTICLE
Bob Seger became a musician at age ten, when his dad taught him to play the bass ukulele. Almost fifty years later, the Michigan native has sold some 50 million albums -- none, to our knowledge, featuring...
February 25, 2004 12:00 AM ET -
Beyonce, OutKast Top Grammys | ARTICLE
Beyonce Knowles may be "Crazy in Love," but she kept her cool Sunday at one of the more sober Grammy Awards shows in memory. She was the night's big winner, taking home a record-tying five trophies to...
February 9, 2004 12:00 AM ET -
Beck Gets His Sea Legs | ARTICLE
As downcast as his forthcoming album Sea Change is, the inimitable funk-folkie Beck was up to some typical mischief last night in San Francisco. "I may ruin my career tonight," he warbled, delaying his first song fifteen minutes or more as...
August 29, 2002 12:00 AM ET
