Bob Dylan’s Epic Anniversary Concert Performance of “My Back Pages” — Now in Stunning HD Quality

Few moments in rock history capture the power of musical collaboration quite like the legendary performance of “My Back Pages” at Bob Dylan’s 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration, better known as Bobfest, held at Madison Square Garden on October 16, 1992. The star-studded event celebrated three decades of Bob Dylan’s groundbreaking influence on music and songwriting. … Read more

Bonnie Tyler regains consciousness after coma, remains critically ill in intensive care.

Fans around the world have received a hopeful update on legendary Welsh singer-songwriter Bonnie Tyler after weeks of concern over her health. Tyler, 74, has emerged from a medically induced coma but remains in intensive care in Portugal, according to a statement released by her family and management team. The update comes five weeks after … Read more

The Morning Elvis Presley Called His Mother From a Stadium Dressing Room — And Sang Her an Entire Song Through the Phone

There is a relationship at the center of Elvis Presley’s life that the mythology of his career has never fully contained because it belongs to a register that mythology cannot reach. Not the manager relationship with Colonel Tom Parker, not the romantic relationships that the tabloids tracked across decades, not the friendship with the Memphis … Read more

The True Story of How “Bohemian Rhapsody” Almost Never Made It Onto the Album — And the One Person Who Fought for It

The story of “Bohemian Rhapsody” as it is usually told begins with Freddie Mercury and ends with the song’s commercial triumph — a narrative arc that smooths over the period in between, the period of doubt and resistance and the specific institutional hostility of a music industry that did not understand what it was hearing … Read more

The Concert Fleetwood Mac Played Where Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks Didn’t Speak a Single Word to Each Other Offstage — But Performed “Gold Dust Woman” So Perfectly It Made the Crew Cry

There is a paradox at the center of Fleetwood Mac that their entire career has been built upon without ever fully resolving. The music they make is music about the specific damage that the people making it have done to each other. The songs on Rumours — which remains one of the best-selling albums in … Read more

The Private Letter Elton John Wrote to John Lennon After He Was Shot — That Yoko Ono Has Never Made Public

Elton John and John Lennon had a friendship that the public record has only partially captured. The most visible evidence of it is musical — the 1974 Madison Square Garden concert where Lennon appeared onstage with Elton following through on a bet made in the recording studio, a bet that produced “Whatever Gets You Through … Read more

The Afternoon Frank Sinatra Walked Into a Bar in New Jersey — Sat Down Next to a Stranger — And Talked for Four Hours About Everything Except Music

There is a version of Frank Sinatra that the world received — the tuxedo, the tumbler of Jack Daniel’s, the ring-a-ding-ding swagger of the Rat Pack years, the voice that could devastate a room of two thousand people with the precision of a surgeon and the warmth of someone who genuinely, specifically loved you. That … Read more

Viral Protest Song by Santa Fe Raging Grannies Calls for Accountability in Epstein Case

The image of the sweet, harmless grandmother has been completely upended by a group of fearless activists known as the Santa Fe Raging Grannies. Armed not with signs or slogans but with music, these outspoken women have captured widespread attention through a haunting protest performance that has resonated with hundreds of thousands of viewers online. … Read more