When is it time to call it a day? When I started Best Classic Bands in earnest in autumn 2014 and flipped the “on” switch for the website in June 2015, my intention was to celebrate the artists, music ...

Robert Johnson was born on May 8, 1911, in Hazlehurst, Miss. He recorded 16 songs for Vocalion Records in San Antonio, Tex., in November 1936 and another 13 for Vocalion in Dallas in June 1937. He was ...

The Blues Project, the New York City-based band whose mid-’60s albums helped usher in the blues-rock revolution—and which then expanded into other musical areas—will release Evolution, their first ...

Nobody sings Dylan like Dylan—on that we can all agree. But there are those who, never having warmed to his idiosyncratic vocal style, have studiously avoided listening to his records, only ...

When it came time to record his tenth album, The Missing Years, in 1991, John Prine was ready to shake things up. Prine’s previous LP, German Afternoons, on Oh Boy, the label he co-owned with his ...

Aerosmith will return to the stage with "California, Dream On: Aerosmith & Friends," at the Hollywood Bowl on Oct. 29, and ...

Like many other rock artists whose careers began in the 1960s, by the early ’90s Eric Clapton was struggling to find his place in contemporary music. The legendary guitarist had attempted to update ...

Poco never quite got their due. Born from the breakup of Buffalo Springfield in 1968, the group’s crucial early lineup featured Richie Furay and Jim Messina alongside Rusty Young, George Grantham and ...

Late in its run, there was an episode of the television program Cheers in which the mischief-making patrons of Gary’s Old Towne Tavern pranked everyone’s favorite group of barflies at Sam Malone’s ...

Singer-songwriter Stephen Bishop is coming out of retirement to perform a Farewell Tour in 2027 to coincide with the 50th ...

The last songs from George Harrison—two albums’ worth of new works with basic tracks and vocals largely complete—are nearly all missing. The songs, first reported in 1999 by the late Billboard ...

Among the many artists signed to Columbia Records by Clive Davis—who died yesterday, June 22, 2026, at age 94—was a band that drew together elements of rock, Latin music, jazz, blues and more: Santana ...