Congrats are in order for Red Hot Chili Peppers, as the band has become the first rock band in 17 years to place two No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 Album chart within the same calendar year. The band just scored that feat with their second album of 2022, Return of the Dream Cant...
Fat Domino and Jimmy Preston were not the first rock ‘n’ roll artists. That’s right, someone else came earlier–100 years earlier for that matter. A new report by Atlas Obscura dives into the history of the English group, The Original Monstre Rock Band, who by 1846 gathered fans from...
Music Association's Hall of Fame in 1997. When the original group, which included Dick & Zelda Sherman (bass guitar and keyboard respectively), Roger Booth (drums and lead vocals), and Dick Burns (lead guitar), started in 1959 nobody knew that they would make Iowa rock music history. ...
Congrats are in order forRed Hot Chili Peppers, as the band has become the first rock band in 17 years to place two No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 Album chart within the same calendar year. The band just scored that feat with their second album of 2022,Return of the Dream Canteen...
Congrats are in order forRed Hot Chili Peppers, as the band has become the first rock band in 17 years to place two No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 Album chart within the same calendar year. The band just scored that feat with their second album of 2022,Return of the Dream Canteen...
2017 - Antigua -- Zahra Lake became the first woman arranger in the history of the National Antigua and Barbuda Panorama with the band Panache Steel Orchestra. The tune of choice was ‘Jumbie.’ | see more | 1949 - New York - Rudy King introduces Pan to America. Rudy King, aka ‘Rock...
This is because, in any genre population of songs, early songs came out early in the history of their genre while other songs came late; but in a pseudo-genre sampled from the mixed-genre dataset, some early songs may be late relative to the history of their own genre, and vice-versa...
Gao shot from behind the scenes. Many of her photos show intimate moments: people dozing off on an airplane, getting a haircut on the street or lighting up a cigarette at a friend’s party. The year of 1994 was significant in the history of Chinese rock. Magic Stone Records released thre...
One of Stax's reliable hitmakers was a close friend of Cropper's: Otis Redding. The two shared a deep musical bond and some shared history. Both musicians grew up on farms ("By the time I was 14, I was ready to leave the home. By the time I was 16, I wasgone...
You're the first artist in GRAMMY history to be nominated simultaneously for Best New Artist and Songwriter Of The Year, Non Classical. What does it mean to you to be recognized for your songwriting alongside your artistry? That one really hit deep. I mean, I identified first as a songwrit...