Today in Music History for Nov. 4: In 1740, English clergyman Augustus Toplady, who wrote the hymn "Rock of Ages," was born. In 1847, composer Felix Mendelssohn died at Leipzig at age 38.

From Elton John to The Beatles and Queen, greatest hits albums continue to play an important role in securing an artist's legacy.

Live albums have all the atmosphere of a concert performance, usually complete with crowd noise and ad libs, but with the ...

Ronnie Wood is working with Rod Stewart on what insiders tell RadarOnline.com is a "final, full-circle" Faces record – a project some close to the pair believe could serve as their musical epitaph.

Here is the favorite Ronnie James Dio song of five rock and metal icons. The legendary singer, who died of stomach cancer in 2010 at the age of 67, famously fronted Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio ...

You might be surprised to find out that The Who has only released a dozen studio albums in their incredible career. They’ve only completed two of those LPs since 1982, which has a lot to do with the ...

Mark Laws, the drummer for popular country music singer Alex Miller, was shot and killed on May 25 in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Taste of Country reported that Laws’ stepson, Maxwell Madon, has been ...

Jenni Watts attended her first birth at the South Brisbane hospital in 1985, and her passion for midwifery remains as strong as ever. She is now one of the longest-serving midwives at Mater, which ...

From glam to punk, prog to soul, the 1970s defined the album era – here are the decade’s standout releases, year by year.

Launched in 2003, Best New Music is Pitchfork’s way of highlighting the finest music of the current moment. The Brussels-based producer fled the strictures of techno and drum’n’bass in search of a ...

Even if objective cultural trends can sometimes feel difficult to discern in our fragmented present, there’s at least one clear trend that you won’t have ...