2022-01-30 13:00 4179

Hargus “Pig” Robbins, a Country Music Hall of Fame member who played piano on thousands of Nashville sessions and was re

2022-01-25 16:49 744

Dick Halligan, who won two Grammys for his early work with the group Blood, Sweat and Tears and later turned to film and

2022-01-21 16:49 3684

Terry Tolkin — a veteran A&R executive for Elektra Records, Touch and Go Records and his own No. 6 label, who signed or

2022-01-21 10:38 4475

Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah spent 22 years chronicling the life and career of rapper Kanye West. In October 2019, Cood

2022-01-21 06:35 4291

The announcement Thursday that Taylor Swift will be the official “ambassador” for Record Store Day 2022 has fans rapt wi

2022-01-21 00:15 4762

Singer Meat Loaf, whose “Bat Out of Hell” album is among the best-selling and most enduring rock albums of the 1970s, di

2022-01-17 16:18 2794

Dan Einstein, a Grammy winner who co-founded independent record labels with singer-songwriters John Prine and Steve Good

2022-01-17 15:31 3317

Steve Schapiro, a famed photojournalist whose work covering the entertainment industry spawned enduring images of films

2022-01-16 13:03 5022

Jon Lind, writer of hits for Earth, Wind & Fire, Madonna, Vanessa Williams and others, passed away Saturday after a two-

2022-01-15 17:50 4153

Dallas Frazier, a songwriter who broke out with the pop novelty hit “Alley Oop” and went on pen country classics like th

2022-01-15 16:25 4193

Ralph Emery, a radio and TV host who became as famous in the country world as most of the stars he interviewed over the

2022-01-14 18:04 4922

The ’90s: back! Also back: overwhelming existential dread! They’re two great tastes that taste great together, as any fa

2022-01-12 17:09 1857

Ronnie Spector may have been the quintessential 1960s poster girl, what with her Wall of Sound-posing, mascara-wearing,

2022-01-12 14:01 558

Ronnie Spector, whose hard-edged yet tremulous voice soared on the Ronettes’ girl-group hits of the early ‘60s, died on

2022-01-11 13:45 2690

One of the surprises on the Oscar music shortlist was Daniel Hart’s score for “The Green Knight,” which is awash with me

2022-01-10 15:57 3995

Jane Alsobrook, an influential film executive, producer and publicist whose marketing work led to the success of numerou

2022-01-09 20:52 1650

James Mtume, the R&B and jazz percussionist, recording artist and producer best known for the 1983 smash “Juicy Fruit” a

2022-01-08 22:00 818

Michael Lang, the co-creator and organizer of 1969’s Woodstock Music and Art Fair, and its follow-ups Woodstock ’94 and

2022-01-08 08:58 2974

Marilyn Bergman, the Oscar-, Emmy- and Grammy-winning songwriter whose lyrics written with her husband, Alan Bergman, gr

2022-01-02 13:43 1464

Stephen J. Lawrence, a musical talent whose credits included 1972’s “Free to Be… You and Me” and a prolific run on “Sesa