Instead of analyzing Frida Kahlo as an icon, radical, libertine — and incidentally an artist — sister painter/author/feminist Judy Chicago starts wi...
Few credit them, but British Invasion duo Peter and Gordon's close harmonies, hooky melodies and strummed acoustics were folk-rock before the term was inven...
1973 was the year the one-two toke of Jamaican reggae hit American hippies. One was the release of antihero crime musical The Harder They Come, starring singer ...
"When Harry went for the high note, it was like a trapeze artist," percussionist Ray Cooper says of singer Harry Nilsson. On top of possessing one of the great ...
Matt Taibbi inherited the Gonzo Throne at Rolling Stone from Dr. Thompson after the latter saw the future and, to paraphrase L. Cohen, knew it was gonna be murd...
Oct. 2, 1999, has gone down in Michael Simmons autobiographical lore as Black Saturday, for it was the day that I took the inaugural on-ramp to the Information ...
Named after the Greek demigoddess who was the go-to hep kitty for artistic muses, Elektra Records was founded 60 years ago by Jac Holzman. Initially a successfu...
What you are reading is called language. It's a kind of language called English that originally came from a land called England, but when the English came o...
If Bob Dylan in America was a painting and not a 400-page book, it might resemble the cover of Sgt. Pepper with Bob at center surrounded by JFK, commie hunter J...
Left-wing activism is not always politically correct nattering nabobs of negativity hectoring people about cigarettes and cheeseburgers. There've been notab...
