Born in Clay County, Kentucky, in 1933, Pennington began his career in a band called the Western Rhythm Boys. In the late 1950s, he inked a deal with King Records, where he released singles under the ...

From listening to music on a Walkman, to burning mix CDs, to running home to catch MTV's Total Request Live countdown — the '90s were a decade that people still talk about to this day. In between ...

Lots of spooky events happening this weekend at the California Academy of the Arts. And some cool workshops at the Letter Archive.

Whether it’s a great biopic or a movie that uses music as a character, films that showcase music in the highest regard are what musicophiles live for in their theater experiences. Movies like one of ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Freddie Mercury did it. Elton John did it. Elvis, too. Now, can Bruce Springsteen score a hit with a rock biopic? One of this month’s buzziest releases is "Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere," ...

T he Palace Theater in Los Angeles was an odd place for a punk show. Its stage once featured worldwide stars like Harry Houdini. For many years it was an ornate movie theater. On this night in 2023, ...

Their faces stare down from every street corner in Israel on posters now sun-faded and ripped. Their stories, told by anguished family members, are almost as well-known as celebrities. They are ...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe earned her honorary title of the Godmother of Rock ‘n’ Roll with her innovative combination of gospel music and electric guitar. The heavy distortion she put into her guitar tone ...

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Pitchfork’s editors are already sorting, compiling, and straining to remember all the music that’s been released this year. So we’re spotlighting some of 2025’s most outstanding records to date by ...

Starting with his first professional recordings and appearances on the Dr. Demento radio show decades ago, "Weird Al" Yankovic—who was born in Downey, California, on October 23, 1959—has managed to ...