And I will raise my hand up into the nighttime sky / And count the stars that’s shining in your eye / And just to dig it all ...

These wonderfully nostalgic pop and rock songs from 1970 will likely ring a bell to anyone who was a kid that very year.

Big Joe Williams’s 1930s song went through multiple manifestations, most memorably when Van Morrison’s Them covered it ...

In the latest of our series on albums marking significant anniversaries, Jim Comet also includes The Waterboys and Nick Cave ...

Years On. His Week-Long United States Booking at Doug Weston’s Troubadour And Debut August 25, 1970. I was an reader of Melody Maker since 1964.

We all bought the singles for the hit in the 1960s, but sometimes the real treasure didn't show until you flipped the record ...

We were always going to be “Forever Young” when we gathered in the mothballed mustiness of the Aula Maxima of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, in the spring of 1979 to watch Martin Scorsese ’s The Last ...

Charlie Watts, the late original drummer for the Rolling Stones, was rather famous for being the opposite kind of character ...

In a recent feature with Record Collector's RC Investigates, the Belfast songwriter, Gareth Dunlop, reflects on how a quiet coasta ...

When Jerry Garcia died in 1995, it seemed like the story of the Grateful Dead might end there. “I didn’t go out of my house for a week,” Mickey Hart recalled years later. But the Dead’s music and ...

The abuse that Glenn Schwartz and more than 50 men, women and children suffered at Fortney Road was finally exposed in 1978.

Today in Music History for Aug. 30: ...