You’ve probably been sharing music with your kids or grandkids, or walked past walls plastered with Korean boy band posters, and thought: what happened here? Where did the real male stars go? Well, ...

Interview recorded April 2022 Zaid grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. “It’s a Dutch name, I grew up there a long time ago,” Abdul-Aziz said with ...

Chuck Negron, a founding member of Three Dog Night whose lead vocals powered classics like “Joy To The World,” “One,” “Easy ...

The singer, known for hits like "One" and "Joy to the World," struggled with drug addiction at the height of his career before getting clean in 1991 ...

William “Billy Bass” Nelson Jr., whose bass playing helped define the revolutionary funk sound of Parliament-Funkadelic, died Saturday, Parade reports. He was 75, passing away days after his birthday ...

We trace the lineage of rapid-response songs, from Woody Guthrie and Nina Simone to Bruce Springsteen's quick turnaround on "Streets of Minneapolis" ...

The Detroit Opera is showcasing Parliament-Funkadelic in a new way. George Clinton’s and P-Funk’s greatest hits will be performed by an orchestra. The event, titled “Symphonic ...

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett argues that the best part about Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl" is actually a recording flub.

There has never been a better origin story in pop stardom, but Three Dog Night had a secret sauce that was more like curation than mythology; find the right song, and then sing it like it belonged to ...

Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a “Song of the Week” designation. Check out last week’s roundup here. Song of the ...

No matter how many times we read or listen to the lyrics of these three country folk songs, we still can't get to the bottom ...

Debut albums have been essential topics of discussion since Sun Records put out Elvis Presley back in 1956. Since then, some of the most cornerstone works in music occurred on debuts—be it The Doors, ...