When B.B. King died in May 2015 at the age of 89, his Variety obituary hailed him as “the ‘King of the Blues,’ who helped define his genre’s electrified postwar sound and became the music’s best-known ...

Without any opening act, Mt. Joy went straight to business shortly after 8:00 p.m. The crowd’s energy was sky high before a ...

In 2017, Lido Pimienta's Spanish-language album "La Papessa" won the $50,000 Polaris prize for the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit. Today in Music History for Sept. 18: ...

Watch David Byrne perform the Talking Heads hit 'Psycho Killer' for the first time in 19 years on the opening night of his headlining solo tour.

Musicians have often offered their talents to meet the needs of the moment— and then moved on. The focus and longevity of ...