His early clients in 1950 included blues legends Howlin’ Wolf and B. B. King. They were among the first to record at what later became Sun Studio. In 1951, Phillips produced a song Ike Turner once ...

Rock and roll was still young in the 1960s, with a clean slate to write and rewrite the rules. It’s hard to say which is more difficult: breaking new ground without a guide or reinventing the wheel ...

Jill Sobule, the groundbreaking singer-songwriter and activist whose 1995 song “I Kissed a Girl” is widely considered the first openly gay-themed song to crack the Billboard Top 20, died in a ...

Fifty years ago, the Beach Boys released Pet Sounds, a collection of groundbreaking songs that redefined pop music for an entire generation. In the decades since, critics and fans have analyzed every ...

After shooting to fame with their hit song "What's Up?" in 1993, the band 4 Non Blondes broke up the very next year, disappointing fans the world over. So it was a major deal when the pioneering ...