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Sure, ‘90s stars like alt-rockers R.E.M., jam-band Widespread Panic and metallers Marilyn Manson and Limp Bizkit all hailed ...

In this exclusive video lesson, the bluesman walks us through an essential skill for the blues guitar player, the slow blues… And he’s going to demonstrate how using an amp it took him 15 years to tra ...

Written by Wallen, Josh Osborne and Shane McAnally, "7 Summers" was originally left off the tracklist for Dangerous: The ...

By the early fifties, the blues shouters were going out of style and were being replaced by vocal groups specializing in love ballads. One of these groups was signed to King Records. They were called ...

Ringo Starr's new country music is far from his first, as in 1970 he released a country album alongside famed steel guitarist, Pete Drake.

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Shaboozey's serving up some "Good News," y'all.The "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" singer hopped on Instagram to share two Reels of the ...

You won’t find any Bob Dylan recordings or even any of his compositions on the Dylan-themed He Took Us by Storm. Instead, as ...

Payne fell last month from his room's balcony on the third floor of his hotel in an upscale neighborhood of Argentina's ...

Do I Wanna Know? by Arctic Monkeys is undoubtedly one of the latter. Since its release, this track has held listeners captive with its haunting lyrics and hypnotic riff, capturing the ache of ...

Cyndi Lauper had the song of 1984 with “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,” an ... an antidote to the submissiveness of “Lucky Star”-era Madonna on the pop charts that year — Chrissie Hynde, Tina Turner and ...