#Music History

Articles (26)

• 🇺🇸 Afrika Bambaataa, hip-hop pioneer, dies at 68 — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Afrika Bambaataa, a rapper and producer, was best known for breakthrough tracks like 1982's "Planet Rock" and for founding the Universal Zulu Nation art collective.

  Related: #Cultural Legacy, #Controversy
• 🇺🇸 Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa dies at age 68 — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Afrika Bambaataa, a man widely considered one of the main pioneers of hip-hop, died in Pennsylvania of prostate cancer on Thursday, according to his lawyer.

  Related: #Cultural Legacy, #Social Impact
• 🇺🇸 Afrika Bambaataa, Often Called the ‘Godfather of Hip-Hop,’ Is Dead — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  A pioneering rapper and D.J. from the Bronx, Mr. Bambaataa was accused of child sexual abuse later in his career.

  Related: #Cultural Legacy, #Celebrity Controversy
• 🇺🇸 Afrika Bambaataa Dies at 67 — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  The pioneering hip-hop DJ and Zulu Nation founder had, in his last decade, been accused by multiple men of sexually abusing them when they were teenagers

  Related: #Cultural Legacy, #Allegations & Controversy
• 🇺🇸 Afrika Bambaataa Dies: Hip-Hop Pioneer, Founder Of The Universal Zulu Nation Was 67 — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Afrika Bambaataa, one of the progenitors of hip-hop whose breakthrough track “Planet Rock” helped define electro-funk and influence generations of artists, has died according to friend and fellow memb...

  Related: #Cultural Legacy, #Social Impact
• 🇺🇸 Afrika Bambaataa, Influential Hip Hop Artist and Zulu Nation Founder, Dies at 67 — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Afrika Bambaataa, the pioneering rapper and record producer behind hit tracks like “Planet Rock” who founded the Zulu Nation hip-hop organization and was later accused of multiple instances of sexual ...

  Related: #Cultural Legacy, #Controversy
• 🇺🇸 Inside Biz Markie’s Personal Archives — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  An intimate glimpse into the life and interests of the late hip-hop legend, from rhyme books to demo tapes

  Related: #Cultural Preservation, #Artist Legacy
• 🇺🇸 Unsurprisingly, Sturgill Simpson Is a Killer Rapper — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  In an unearthed video, a teenage Simpson raps about prom

  Related: #Artist Development, #Genre Fusion
• 🇺🇸 Gwendolyn ‘Blondy’ Chisolm, the Sequence Co-Founder, Dead at 66 — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  The rapper and singer-songwriter formed the hip-hip group with Cheryl “The Pearl” Cook and Angie Stone in 1979 and quickly scored a hit with “Funk You Up”

  Related: #Pioneering Artists, #Hip-Hop Culture
• 🇬🇧 ‘We built a castle on stage complete with battlements’: how 80s German thrash bands pushed metal to new extremes — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>As Metallica et al broke through, Kreator, Sodom and Destruction were forging an even harder sound. They recall gigs in coalmines, sessions in steelworks – and boozing with Slayer</p><p>The noise m...

  Related: #Performance Art
• 🇺🇸 How Derek Trucks Ended Up Playing Jerry Garcia’s $12 Million ‘Tiger’ Guitar — 15/03/2026 [USA]

  Trucks and Family Guitars' Bobby Tseitlin talk for the first time about the legendary instrument, which they celebrated over a bottle of 20-year-old whiskey

  Related: #Iconic Instruments
• 🇬🇧 John Lennon's piano used to write Beatles songs sold for record amount — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The piano John Lennon used to compose some of his most notable songs for The Beatles has set the record for the most expensive piece of memorabilia sold from the band.

  Related: #Memorabilia Auction
• 🇺🇸 40 Years of SXSW in Pictures: Amy Winehouse, Metallica, Bruce Springsteen, Billie Eilish, and More — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  See the most notable shows at the festival, which is celebrating its 40th year this spring

  Related: #Festival Retrospective
• 🇺🇸 Country Joe McDonald’s Final Rolling Stone Interview: ‘Woodstock Changed Everything’ — 08/03/2026 [USA]

  The late singer explained how his legendary Woodstock moment came to be in a never-before-published 2019 interview with Rolling Stone

  Related: #Cultural Impact
• 🇬🇧 I met Elvis on his one visit to Scotland - it was like a dream — 08/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Anne Murphy was 16 when she saw the King as he stopped over in Prestwick on 2 March 1960.

  Related: #Celebrity Encounter
• 🇺🇸 Paul McCartney's overlooked work — 07/03/2026 [USA]

  "CBS Saturday Morning" sits down with Morgan Neville, the director of "Man on the Run," a documentary about the life of Paul McCartney after the Beatles broke up.

  Related: #Artist Legacy
• 🇬🇧 I had a front row seat at the Blur v Oasis frenzy – here’s what a new play gets bang on and bafflingly wrong — 06/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>In 1995, the bands tussled for No 1 – and the Britpop crown. Our writer was on the inside of the mad-for-it contest. Does The Battle accurately capture this divisive moment? And what was Noel’s pro...

  Related: #Cultural Critique
• 🇬🇧 Under the mirrorball: the kings and queens of disco – in pictures — 06/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Disco brought together music, fashion and nightlife in a cultural phenomenon that conquered the world. In <a href="https://www.accartbooks.com/uk/book/a-night-at-the-disco/">A Night at the Disco</a...

  Related: #Visual Arts
• 🇺🇸 Billy Strings, Alison Krauss, and ‘O Brother’ Alumni Mark 25 Years of Hit Soundtrack — 01/03/2026 [USA]

  The watershed roots-music album O Brother, Where Art Thou? , produced by T Bone Burnett, came to vivid life onstage at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville

  Related: #Cultural Impact, #American Folk Revival
• 🇺🇸 ‘The Beach Boys Love You’ Gets Its Live Premiere After 50 Years: Al Jardine and Darian Sahanaja on Finally Bringing the Classic Album to the Stage — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  Is the 1977 album “The Beach Boys Love You” a classic and essential part of this great American band’s catalog, or a lark? It’s so different from virtually every other album the group ever recorded ov...

  Related: #Beach Boys, #Brian Wilson, #Album Premiere, #Musical Legacy
• 🇺🇸 Inside Abbey Road’s First-Ever Rave, Hosted by Soulwax: ‘We Hope It’s Not Going to Be the Last’ — 24/02/2026 [USA]

  Tucked away in a quiet corner of North London sits the iconic Abbey Road Studios — a pillar of history where recorded music began in 1931, the Beatles found their artistic home and the world’s most ce...

  Related: #Cultural Events, #Venue Transformation
• 🇺🇸 You need to listen to Laurie Spiegel’s masterpiece of early ambient music — 22/02/2026 [USA]

  I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Laurie Spiegel for the site. As preparation for the interview, I spent a lot of time over the last couple of weeks revisiting Spiegel's records, most notabl...

  Related: #Ambient Music, #Electronic Innovation
• 🇬🇧 Unmasking US rap iconoclast MF Doom’s final years in West Yorkshire — 10/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Podcast by Adam Batty and BBC 6 Music DJ Afrodeutsche follows the leads to Leeds </p><p>The hunt for clues about the life of the masked rapper MF Doom had taken Adam Batty to some strange places, n...

  Related: #Biography, #Investigation
• 🇺🇸 Passage: In memoriam — 08/02/2026 [USA]

  "Sunday Morning" remembers some notable people who left us this week, including singer LaMonte McLemore, a founding member of vocal group The 5th Dimension.

  Related: #Obituaries, #Cultural Legacy
• 🇺🇸 Don Henley reflects on the Eagles' "miraculous run," Glenn Frey, and more — 08/02/2026 [USA]

  Don Henley acknowledges the Eagles are "kind of a staple" as they sell out shows at the Las Vegas Sphere and cement their status with the best-selling album of all time.

  Related: #Entertainment, #Legacy
• 🇺🇸 Extended Interview: Don Henley — 08/02/2026 [USA]

  Singer-songwriter Don Henley reflects on the Eagles' decades-long career, the larger than life legacy of his late bandmate Glenn Frey, and the emotional moment he saw Frey's son Deacon perform in his ...

  Related: #Legacy, #Culture