Lou Reed didn't always have time for mainstream rock and roll, but he felt that some songs always have something new with every listen.

The Velvet Underground were a New York band through and through, so when they first landed in California in 1966, it was never going to work for them.

On "Harlem River", Kevin Morby finds his future by leaving New York City and the river that gave his debut solo album a name.

Before Woodstock and FM radio shaped the sound of the 1970s, the 1960s were already roaring with American bands pushing rock ...

Garland Jeffreys was friends with Lou Reed and Bruce Springsteen, and highly praised in the Seventies for his songs about race. Has he been forgotten?

With a new documentary surrounding the life of Billy Idol, the singer revealed how he almost died when overdosing on drugs.

American musicians Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined the group, taking their sound in a dramatic new direction. The ...

At a time when the music industry was dominated by manufactured pop stars, violent gangsta rap and angst-ridden nu-metal, The ...

The colorful, sea-inspired Mermaid Parade splashes back onto the Coney Island boardwalk this weekend for its 43rd year.

Duncan commissioned Sioux City-born artist Paul Chelstad to paint a large ceiling mural for the shop, depicting the entire history of recorded music from Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph up ...

Legendary rocker Billy Idol shares how Mel Gibson found him unconscious during a chaotic Thailand trip at the peak of his ...

Andy Warhol would be amazed and proud that the Polaroid pictures he took — and often handed out for free — are worth $25,000 apiece today.