Blue Note's name came from the term for the tone that gives a melody its "blue" edge. That potent touch of tight, tart soul shows up all over the seven-decade story that started with the 1939 Albert Am …

It had been bubbling up from underground for years, but when the '90s arrived, so did the full fuerza of rock en Espa±ol. A breakthrough decade for bands from Mexico City to Chile, from East L.A. to Ma …

Hey, diez a±os is a long time! You could spend just as long looking through years' worth of Rock de los '90s for lo mejor in overlooked and undiscovered tracks - or you can download Deep Cuts for the r …

Nineteen eighty-eight was the year when metal battled rap for the musical consciousness of America's youth, and the hair farmers ultimately lost. Guns N' Roses couldn't have been any bigger (and how mu …

The Renaissance (1450-1600) was a time of innovation and discovery. While Galileo busied himself with the choreography of the solar system, Palestrina, Monteverdi, and their contemporaries began to unr …

It was just about a 100 years ago that composer Richard Henry Walthew coined perhaps the best simple description of chamber music, a form that had already been around for more than 300 years: "t …

As you can tell from our journey, chamber music turns out to mean very different things to different composers, as it makes its journey from antiquity to the modern day. For those of you who think Scho …

As the '60s came to a close, singer-songwriters turned away from counter-cultural chaos, retreating into themselves, their pensive, introspective songs applying a much-needed alternative to the big, th …

Wielding his pen like a sword, an angry and indignant Bob Dylan plays the avenging angel in "Hurricane," taking up the cause of imprisoned boxer Rubin Carter with a breathless track capped by Scarlet R …