To a jazz fan, the combination of the names Medeski Scofield Martin and Wood is inherently intriguing. Between the famous trio’s ability to craft beat-driven, catchy instrumentals and John Scofield’s impressive résumé — …
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Barbie Dolls and Taylor Swift: Highlights From the Country Music Awards
Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood hosted the Country Music Awards last night, a show which boasted 29 different musical performances, countless cowboy hats, three fedoras and one camouflage blazer (that would belong to Paisley). …
St. Vincent: A New, Old-Fashioned Rock Star
At New York City’s Webster Hall, the indie rocker shreds guitar and thrills a roomful of music nerds.
New Amy Winehouse Album Announced
Amy Winehouse Lioness: Hidden Treasures is a posthumous collection of outtakes, demos and cover songs from the late singer.
Photos: From Ella to Sinatra, TIME’s Best Crooners
A photo gallery of the pre-rock singers on our All-TIME 100 Songs list
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Coming Soon: The All-TIME 100 Songs
Compiled by a group of the magazine’s writers and editors, the list is the result of months of heated debate and one really, really long email chain about disco.
Video: Beyoncé’s “Love on Top” Has Lots of Bounce
No matter how good or bad the songs, Beyoncé’s music videos are always great.
Music Monday: Mayer Hawthorne Channels Motown On How Do You Do
I’m having a hard time writing about Mayer Hawthorne’s sophomore album How Do You Do because all I want to do is listen to the song “A Long Time” over and over again.
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My Rosie Serenade; or, You Don’t Really Care for Music, Do You?
So yesterday in my review of the then-two-day-old The Rosie Show on OWN, I riffed on Rosie O’Donnell’s quoting of her show’s critical reviews during her monologue: “Just in case,” I wrote, “it’s Pah-nuh-WAH-zick.'” Rosie, and her …
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R.E.M. TV: They Stood in the Place Where They Lived
Word of warning: for the next day or two, those of us who attended college in the ’80s and ’90s are going to be insufferable. The news has come out that R.E.M., after a three-decade run, are breaking up. Get ready for the reminiscences: this is an unprovable thesis, but R.E.M.’s music was especially intimate and inward-looking for a …
The 30 All-TIME Best Music Videos
Thirty years ago, MTV began to beam a budding art form — the music video — into homes across the U.S. TIME takes a look back at the most memorable clips from three decades’ worth of music television
Happy Sweet 16: Top 10 Reasons Why Clueless Is Still Awesome
As our favorite ’90s teen movie turns sweet 16, TIME takes a look at its best moments
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The Morning After: Troubadours
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It’s easy to engage an audience by making TV shows about music they love. This has been a truism for PBS for many a pledge-drive season now, so it’s no surprise the network would air a show like last night’s American Experience Masters, …