Scotty Moore, the pioneering rock 'n' roll guitarist whose fluid picking propelled Elvis Presley's first recordings for Sun Records, died Tuesday in Nashville, according to Memphis newspaper the…
Ralph Stanley, one of the founding fathers and great originals of American bluegrass music, died on Thursday. He was 89. His grandson, Nathan, posted on his Facebook page that Ralph Stanley died…
It is difficult to think of a music superstar who enjoyed a music-biz career at once as massive and as tortured as that enjoyed by Prince, who died Thursday at 57. A virtual one-man industry at the…
Fifteen years ago, George Martin — who began his career as a producer of classical recordings – created a series of classical anthologies for an L.A. independent label. To celebrate the event, the…
Rap luminary Kendrick Lamar was the big winner at the 58th Grammy Awards on Monday night, but he was denied an album of the year trophy by Taylor Swift, who prevailed for her smash hit "1989." Swift…
The top nominees at the 58th annual Grammy Awards all took home gold at the “Premiere Ceremony” at the Nokia Theatre on Monday afternoon. In quick succession, 11-time nominee Kendrick Lamar won for…
Handicapping Monday's 2016 Grammy Awards is no easy task, as the year's three top nominees – Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar and the Weeknd — will go head-to-head in the major general-field categories…
David Bowie had his greatest screen role in Thomas Jerome Newton, the brilliant, tormented alien hero of Nicolas Roeg's 1976 adaptation of Walter Tevis' novel “The Man Who Fell to Earth.” The…
Superstar Taylor Swift crowded the top categories in the nominations for the 58th Grammy Awards, but the presence of newcomers and wild cards could make for an interesting race leading up to the Feb…
Ornette Coleman, one of the jazz avant-garde's leading innovators of the '50s and '60s as a composer, instrumentalist and theoretician, died of cardiac arrest in Manhattan on Thursday. He was 85…
Singer-guitarist B.B. King, the "King of the Blues" who helped define his genre's electrified postwar sound and became the music's best-known international ambassador, has died. He was 89. His…
