Forum: General Music Discussion

Adam "MCA" Yauch, a founding member of the pioneering rap band Beastie Boys, died Friday after a nearly three-year battle with cancer. Adam...

Jim Marshall died today at 88. As the marketing line says "Real Men Play Marshalls". I know I always have played his amps. So did all of the...

We had a similar thread on The Spot, but I ran across this last night. Surly these are not real. Who would be this dumb? There are many...

Not just bluegrass, an American music legend. Many people may not know the name, Earl Scruggs but if you've ever heard the theme from The...

Tyler - how could you miss this story? TMZ has the quote machine, Courtney Love, saying that her deceased husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain,...

This is a classic - specifically because Ricardo Muti was the main man in Philly before going to La Scala Opera House in Italy. I have always...

You could say that the story of the recording industry over the last decade and a half — the era since the MP3 rattled its game plan — has been a...

Once the man behind the band that gave Sammy Hagar his start, Ronnie Montrose has reportedly died at age 64. Reports say he was dealing with...

Yesterday I revisited the wonderful soundtrack to the film Big Bad Love. The movie is average at best, but the soundtrack is one of my all-time...

If you are any kind of Van Halen fan, you have at least heard of the band ban of brown M&M's while on tour. I always assumed it was an extension of...

A cool story from NPR: Peter Frampton sold millions of records with the help of a customized Gibson guitar. Three decades ago, that guitar was...

I am shocked they didn't pick Lady Gaga or some of the other artists that they are so in love with these days. Eric Clapton no. 2 - c'mon. Eddie...

Don Corneilus was about as much of a pimp as there ever was. On $400 he created and ran a first run show that brought black culture and music the...