Live At Winchester Cathedral 1967 represents the first-ever release of a previously unheard recording of a 26 March 1967 Sly and the Family Stone live show. It is the earliest document of Sly and Co.
The 2026 Grammy telecast is more than four months away, but the In Memoriam spot is already filling up. In fact, at least four music legends have died this year who could easily justify a separate ...
When Greil Marcus published Mystery Train in 1975, it was hailed as the greatest book ever written about rock & roll. Fifty years after it came out, there’s a lot more competition — but no other book ...
The WMNF Song of the Day for October 6, 2025 is “Sister Rose” by previous SOTDers The Tall Pines.
Almost 17, already trying to stitch together what I was hearing on the radio and what I was reading in English class, I was electrified. Greil Marcus was showing me that the jukebox and the bookshelf ...
These columns aren't surveys of the marketplace so much as dispatches from whatever happens to be on the turntable, in the ...
Elvis Presley, Robert Johnson, Sly Stone, Randy Newman: In Marcus' telling, they weren't just performers, they were characters in the nation's long-running novel, caught between dream and wreckage.
When Greil Marcus published Mystery Train in 1975, it was hailed as the greatest book ever written about rock & roll. Fifty years after it came out, there’s a lot more competition — but no other book ...
Alongside his all-star touring band, Smith will perform selections from his new record "LIVE-ACTION" at a pair of City Winery ...
Fifty years ago, when Greil Marcus published "Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music," I was on the edge of 17, a high school senior living across the Red River from Shreveport, ...
Discover Harlem’s vibrant jazz scene with free performances at the National Jazz Museum. Also, celebrating Kenny Kirkland’s ...