Country songs were seldom this brazen, especially those recorded by its female stars – and many radio stations banned Loretta Lynn’s “The Pill.”

Mike Tiano remembers how music and Microsoft brought the legendary drummer Alan White into his life.

Songwriter Erik Ritland reflects on the impact Meat Loaf had on his music – and his life.

Jim Pembroke is lost, but thankfully not without a trace. Here’s an appreciation of this legend from the Finnish prog band Wigwam, written “in gratitude.”

“See, it takes two of us to make an Everly Brothers record,” Don Everly once told me, “and there’s just no way around it.”

Music is the sound of feelings whose names haven’t yet been invented. Similarly, the experience of vinyl isn’t something words do justice to.

Thank you, Jim Steinman, for showing the world what feelings sound like when we let ourselves experience them at their loudest.

This is one of those massive losses in both the jazz and piano worlds. It’s simply impossible to even summarize Chick Corea’s impact.

Sky deftly bridged genres, including classical and rock, yet somehow their music has nearly disappeared from minds and playlists.

With Neil Peart’s passing, Mike Tiano reflects on his connection to Rush through working for Canadian rock artists during the 1970s.