Joni Mitchell accepted an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music and called it her “moment of revenge” on a music teacher from her youth. The revered singer-songwriter was in high spirits at the private event, at which Berklee students sang with professional performers, leading the creator of the works to shout: “Oh, it’s beautiful!” and […]
For the bulk of his career, Toto’s David Paich has been playing on other people’s records, stacking up credits on around 2,000 albums – though he jokingly admitted recently that this figure might not be precise. Regardless of the total, Paich’s sessions work has snared six Grammy Awards and while helping to sell countless millions […]
The Black Keys have delivered many incendiary tracks in a career spanning more than two decades. Singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney emerged from Akron, Ohio shortly after the turn of the millennium, proudly wearing their influences on their sleeves. By blending of classic rock, garage rock and blues, the Black Keys created a […]
King Crimson stalwart Robert Fripp looked back on the challenges of songwriting with other musicians, and picked out an easy way to break up a lineup. “With Crimson [songwriting] was an open form of engagement, which has always been complex, always problematic and always very demanding,” Fripp explained in a new interview with Guitar World. “If […]
There’s nothing subtle about Muse. There never has been. And that’s always been part of their appeal, as well as one of the reasons their detractors have stayed away from their music going on a quarter century now. Like Queen, a band Muse has been frequently compared to throughout their career, the Matt Bellamy-led group takes a […]
Kiss will release a five-CD box set of their career-saving Creatures of the Night on Nov. 18. The 1982 album found Kiss returning to their hard-rock roots after alienating their fan base with a series of records that flirted with pop, disco and progressive rock. Although it wasn’t an immediate commercial success, Creatures marked a […]
Jonathan Cain was nine years old when a fire broke out on Dec. 1, 1958, at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, where he attended. The blaze started in the basement of one of the buildings and had spread uncontrollably within an hour, leaving children and teachers stranded in various parts of the campus. By the time […]
Ray Wilson opened up about the highs and lows of his brief tenure fronting Genesis, saying the experience was “like being taken to the top of Mount Everest and thrown off.” Wilson joined the veteran prog-pop band in 1996, becoming their third lead singer — following Phil Collins, who quit in March of that year, and […]
Former Deep Purple and Rainbow singer Joe Lynn Turner revealed his lifelong hair-loss issue, which led to being bullied when he was at school. In a press photo for his upcoming solo album Belly of the Beast, Turner appeared without a wig for the first time since he was 14 years old, 11 years after […]
Elton John said he hoped “Hold Me Closer,” his new duet with Britney Spears, would help restore the pop star’s confidence. The singer and songwriter initially connected with producer Andrew Watt on the project. Together, they worked on the song’s structure, remixing the track, adding new instrumental layers and editing John’s original vocals. As they pondered who […]