John Coltrane

Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Albert Ayler, the Velvet Underground, Eric Dolphy, Dusty Springfield, and the other artists who changed music forever

Have yourself a merry little playlist with David Bowie, Darlene Love, Sufjan Stevens, the Waitresses, and more

From Fela to the new generation of mostly European reissue and compilation labels, we've updated our guide to the world of Afropop.

Paul Weller, the legendary frontman of the Jam and the Style Council, hits age 50 running with an epic and diverse double-album, 22 Dreams. And he's as surprised as the rest of us.

How to strike the right chords-- for musicians and non-musicians alike.

British psych-jazz legend on working with Brian Eno and Paul Weller, the long journey from Dionne Warwick to Johnny Cash, and how he considers himself a "sit-down comedian."

Giving up on "difficult" records-- ones that could serve as barometers of the limits of your current taste and understanding-- may mean giving up on the notion that how you hear music is continually shifting, often in unconscious ways.

David Tibet discusses his new album, Black Ships Ate the Sky, as well as his frustrations with James Joyce and jazz, his love of Shirley Collins, the death of Coil's Jhonn Balance, and why girl-group music reminds him of the apocalypse.

We take a final look at our favorite songs of the 1960s, listing our individual top 10s and musing on a handful of tracks our writers believe should have made the final cut.

From James Brown to Etta James, Jimi Hendrix to Patsy Cline, here are the tracks that lit up the decade

For years, I've been waiting for someone to ask me to curate a festival. Something similar to All Tomorrow ...

Music for weddings and the wisdom of the crowd.