The guitarist, songwriter and punk-rock public intellectual on his fiery yet reflective new album, the challenges of the avant-garde, the significance of Black Sabbath, the dynamic of Sonic Youth and much more.
Before the stadium tours, MTV and Eno, the world’s biggest band found themselves and their widescreen sound in the heady post-punk era.
How the New Romantics transformed punk rebellion into era-defining pop.
A ‘Guitar Player’ magazine writer-editor and devoted Eddie Van Halen disciple on how EVH changed his instrument, and rock and roll, forever.
Animals as Leaders’ Tosin Abasi reflects on the genius of Eddie Van Halen.
The late co-founder and his brother helmed their group from jazz to funk to astonishing, enduring commercial success.
How interdependent Black and Latinx communities and heritages created hip-hop culture and reggaeton.
How the cultural and literary icon continues to deliver lessons of freedom, humanity and humility.
A wide-ranging chat with the pianist and conceptualist.
The psychedelic frontman on the Lips’ majestic, melancholy new LP, ‘American Head,’ the adverse effects of LSD, a teenage near-death experience and more.
The jazz immortal on baseball, Bird, Coltrane, his ceaseless spiritual journey and an explosive upcoming archival release from 1967.
Recording for a major label in the mid-’70s, the brilliant but forgotten singer-songwriter offered an honest, thoughtful expression of gay identity.
Compassionate, innovative projects helmed by Ani DiFranco, Wayne Kramer, David Jassy and others use music to help prisoners restore the humanity that incarceration strips away.
A century after his birth, the modern-jazz lodestar Charlie Parker remains an all-consuming yet continually misjudged influence.
As the institution’s Cleveland museum turns 25, a look back at the profoundly influential artists not yet included. They all may not have been megasellers, but they made the pop-music landscape that followed possible.
