A fan and player from an early age, he studied urban studies and psychology at Wayne State University and worked as a mental ...

A line nearly always snakes out the door of Lee Ren Hair Salon, where some of the city’s thriftiest style seekers come for a ...

Short-lived and underappreciated Chicago eight-piece Aura created an ambitious fusion of soul, funk, acid rock, and jazz on ...

Connecting the threads of culture and music takes a full year of planning and a big dose of what folklorist Rachel Reynolds ...

Most musicians spend years mastering a single instrument. Then there are those rare talents who look at one instrument and ...

The three rock songs below did not have trouble speaking to teenagers. In fact, their lyrics could double as a dramatic diary entry.

A lot was happening in music in 1977. Seminal punk albums arrived side-by-side with classic, country, and progressive rock releases. Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Pink Floyd, and ...

Our month-long quest to find rock's spookiest song has reached a logical and epic final battle, with Iron Maiden facing off against Black Sabbath. It's a war of era-opening title tracks, as "The ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Here are the 11 best prog rock albums from the 1970s! Progressive rock began in the late 1960s, but it didn’t hit its stride commercially or creatively until the next decade (with artists such as King ...

Joe Walsh's influence on the Eagles will never be defined simply by songs. It was really about the vibe. Even when the Eagles gathered for a belated 2000s-era double LP, Walsh only had two showcase ...

Where should you start if you want to represent the '70s in your vinyl collection? Luckily we've got a few selections for essentials that should send you on your way to repeated needle drops and spins ...