Museum Exhibit Showcases Best of Rock Photography

For as long as rock 'n' roll has existed, there have always been photographers capturing the ... Read More »

Celebrity Tax Evasion: Musicians Who Got Caught by the Taxman

George Harrison seemed like the gentle Beatle, but even he reserved special animosity for the one ... Read More »

'60s Music -- An Introduction

'60s music is most easily described as revolutionary, with many of the established forms of the ... Read More »

Neil Diamond Has High Praise for the Jonas Brothers

Neil Diamond is one of music's unquestioned top live draws, a performer who's set attendance records ... Read More »

James Brown's 'Soul Power' Lives On in New Film

Producer Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, while editing the Oscar-winning film 'When We Were Kings,' took note of ... Read More »

Scarlett Johansson Covers the Cure + More

Tom Waits cover girl Scarlett Johansson also covers the Cure's 'Boys Don't Cry' on a new iTunes ... Read More »

Prodigal Seun: A Second Heir to Fela Kuti's Afrobeat Crown Arrives

Seun Anikulapo Kuti is looking a bit professorial in his black and white dashiki and black-rimmed ... Read More »

James Brown, 'There Was a Time' (Kenny Dope Remix) - Free MP3 of the Day

Artist: James Brown Songs: 'There Was a Time' (Kenny Dope Remix) Album: 'Verve Remixed Vol. 4' ... Read More »

Rock Almanac: May 19, 2008

On This Date in 1988: James Brown is released on bond after spending the night in an Aiken, S.C. ... Read More »

Bootsy Collins Planning James Brown Tribute Tour + More

Bootsy Collins is launching a tour, dubbed 'A Tribute to James Brown,' with alumni from Brown's ... Read More »

Rock Almanac: May 3, 2008

On This Date in 1933: James Brown, christened James Joseph Brown Jr., is born is Barnwell, S.C. The ... Read More »

Shockingly Cocky Quotes: No. 8

"I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote ... Read More »

Jazz Drummer Steve Reid's Spontaneous Return to Africa

When Steve Reid first went to Senegal in 1966 -- by container ship in a journey meant as a reverse ... Read More »

Rock Almanac: January 23, 2008

On This Date in 1986: The first group of inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -- Buddy Holly, ... Read More »

Pete Rock Makes His Solo Return, Proclaiming Himself 'NY's Finest'

Legendary Big Apple producer Pete Rock is readying his 'NY's Finest' LP, opening the next chapter in ... Read More »

12 Best Christmas Songs: No. 5

'Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto' --James Brown (1968) Before Jay-Z was born, the great JB ... Read More »