Bill Murphy

Scott Gorham can't recall exactly when he was introduced to a certain towheaded youngster who'd never heard o…

According to founding guitarist Vernon Reid, Living Colour 's new album was officially born onstage at the Ap…

Yes, there are 8 million stories in the naked city, but they're still not enough to do justice to Rammellzee.…

Two decades ago, you'd be forgiven if you'd never heard of Lee Fields. His career to that point could best be…

Dennis Bovell happens to be the de-facto godfather of the romance-heavy reggae genre known as lovers rock. Bu…

It's hard to believe that Plantation Lullabies, Meshell Ndegeocello's sensuous, soulful and unremittingly fun…

Brimming with poignant ballads and the indelible sound of his trusty guitar, Trigger, Nelson's 70th solo albu…

Let's make it clear right off the bat: Angel Olsen does not listen to Joni Mitchell. Sure, as a singer-songw…

On her long-awaited seventh studio album Soberish, Liz Phair reconnects with her past to deliver a brilliantl…

As Brooklyn's premier Afrobeat unit Antibalas celebrates over 20 years in the game, frontman Duke Amayo reali…

All his life, Bobby Womack has been a fighter. A protégé of Sam Cooke, he courted derision in early 1965 when…

For all the soul heroes Bruce Springsteen openly feted at his electrifying Apollo Theater performance last Fr…

Thurston Moore is onstage cranking up one of his signature Fender Jazzmasters to a darkened room at Rough Tra…

Within a year of releasing their seventh LP Emperor of Sand in 2017, the four prog-metal mavens of Mastodon f…

Drop a needle on Khruangbin's latest album — and really, you should drop a needle on it, because this music i…

None other than Bob Dylan once said about songwriting: “Songs don’t just come to me. They usually brew for a …

When you feel music on a gut level like John Prine does, it's easy, if not downright tempting, to let yoursel…

It can be loud, brash, brutal, experimental, and even psychedelic, but arguably no other style of music has e…

When Nick Cave cuts loose with laughter, it's almost as unnerving as it is refreshing. He is, after all, the …

They’re both scions of Philly’s indie rock and punk undergrounds, but Kurt Vile and Steve Gunn have pursued m…

Cass McCombs’ ninth LP Tip of the Sphere is an artfully crafted set that casts his Bay Area alt-folk roots in…

New York City's Irving Plaza is packed to the rafters — a sweaty mass of fans hollering their approval as the…

Robert Plant and a few of his mates are huddled in one corner of the ground-floor café at the ultra-hip Wythe…

On his first album of all new material since 2009, the hard-rocking romantic climbs the holy mountain and wav…