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Thelonious Monk was already an icon of the U.S. bebop movement from his piano bench when the late 1950s saw the genre taken to new...

From the opening riff of “Aces High,” Iron Maiden’s fifth album “Powerslave” is a guitar-driven, adrenaline-fuel masterpiece and the...

B-horror movies and gothic themes were uncommon in the early iterations of punk rock until Lodi, New Jersey’s The Misfits crawled out of...

Few soul singers of the Motown era of the 1960s and ’70 gave us a voice as smooth and bombastic as the icon Marvin Gaye, and like many...

The original lineup of the Grateful Dead is shown inside the gatefold of "Skull and Roses." No rock band was more synonymous with live...

Dave Mustaine was kicked out of Metallica for his unrepenting drunkenness in the late 1980s, years before that band went on to become...

“Everything Scatter” is situated amid Kuti’s renowned “purple period” in the mid-1970s known for increasingly political themes in the music.

Photos and words by Adrian Hedden The cover of "London Calling" features Paul Simonon smashing his bass at a concert. Born out of the...

The cover of "A Love Supreme" Iconic jazz saxophonist John Coltrane hit his creative peak in his 1965 album “A Love Supreme,” released...