The NY Times recently published an op-ed on the aging of rock music as a genre and of its first generation of musicians (specifically the ones who played “Oldchella”). It included the following claim: ...

The Byrds weren’t attempting to sound jazzy. Instead, they wanted to incorporate some of Coltrane’s approaches into their music. Like any other genre of music, rock is constantly developing. In the ...

Lou Reed of The Velvet Underground was quite a fan of jazz. In fact, he enjoyed the unique perspective of jazz and its freedom. Free-form jazz, specifically, could have easily inspired unique (and ...

The emergence of jazz-rock fusion in American music in the late 1960s was controversial. To some, those who played it were traitors to the cause of jazz. Others thought it has saved jazz from ...

There’s a reason Miles Davis recorded “My Funny Valentine” and John Coltrane “My Favorite Things.” Jazz musicians work via a strategy of theme-and-variation. They plant a melodic/rhythmic motif in the ...

In Chuck Klosterman’s alternate history, the Beatles fade into obscurity while the Velvet Underground becomes an immediate success.

Rock is dead. Long live rock! In the 75 years since the first rock & roll song was cut to tape in a Memphis studio, this ...

Louis Armstrong said, “If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.” Duke Ellington said, “There are simply two kinds of music: good music and the other kind.” Christopher Cross said, “If you ...

We've ranked the best rock music videos of the 1990s, including visuals from Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Nine Inch Nails.