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Led Zeppelin took a calculated risk in leaving London to come to America in 1968. The band had no album out yet, response from the press in England was mild, and three of the group had never been [...]

In the annals of pop R&B, Earth, Wind & Fire’s place was assured as a multi-platinum, multi-Grammy-winning supergroup. The band’s hits ranked as some of the most joyous moments of the 1970s.

The Doobie Brothers’ numerous hits collectively formed one of the most impressive repertoires of any American band. Their legendary 1970s shows were marked by the percussive thrust of dual [...]

Raised in Alabama, Jimmy Buffett had never seen the mountains until a friend from Colorado’s Timberline Rose turned him on to the Rockies.

A pioneering band in many ways, Queen assembled a brash, theatrical stage act well before glitter bands emerged as a potent pop vehicle.

By 1969, it was beginning to dawn on people that most of the decade’s rock icons weren’t functioning. The Beatles hated each other. Bob Dylan had become a recluse. Jim Morrison’s encounters with [...]

Nestled in the foothills of Morrison, Colorado, 20 minutes from downtown Denver, Red Rocks is a geologic phenomenon—an acoustically perfect amphitheatre not duplicated anywhere in the world, a [...]

Chris Wood is one-third of Medeski Martin & Wood, one of America’s hottest instrumental groove bands and a surprising pop music phenomenon—an organ-bass-and-drums trio with neither a guitar nor a [...]

Tag Team’s “Whoomp! (There It Is)” was every B-boy and B-girl’s jeep-ready anthem in the summer of 1993. The slammin’ slang caught fire nationwide after Chicago Bulls fans shouted it during the [...]

Janis Joplin, with her band Big Brother & the Holding Company, popularized a style of music recalling the days of great black soul singers such as Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday—only with a much [...]