A terrific collaboration with Killeen Foundry reminds us of everything Jerry Giddens was, and what he can still become.

Evan Parker and John Edwards offered soul music for the spiritually minded during a very special performance at the Vortex.

You hear this Velvet Underground classic as never before, without its now-familiar street-tough attitude, to say nothing of its insouciant gait.

Roger Waters once replaced his school-age chum Nick Mason with another drummer, during the contentious sessions for Pink Floyd’s ‘The Final Cut.’

With ‘All Purpose Music,’ the Virginia-based soul-funk-jazz quartet Butcher Brown shows why Nicholas Payton is so fired up about this band.

Here are Steely Dan’s five best sax solos, selected in tandem by our panel of Dan-loving authorities.

Peter Gabriel has inserted an elegiac new song into the acoustic portion of his ongoing Back to Front tour. Listen to it here!

Dave Grohl is more enthusiastic than he is inspired. As such, it’s easier to pull for the Foo Fighters than to actually like their stuff.

An ailing Jeff Beck simply couldn’t make it on stage in 1966. So the Yardbirds asked their bass player to take over. A bass player named Jimmy Page.

Steve Earle sounds like he was born to the blues, even if he’s just now turning his focus there.