These disco one-hit wonders were huge hits back in the 1970s; and one can't help but wonder why the artists behind them ...

Trying to choose 15 songs from Quincy Jones' illustrious career in music is a steep challenge, but you can't go wrong with ...

Quincy Jones’ gilded discography spanned jazz, pop and rock — and collaborations with Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and countless others. Start with these gems.

As a producer, arranger, composer, bandleader and recording artist, he made a powerful mark on nearly every genre he touched.

“Y’all ready to get hot?” emcee Micael Priest asks the crowd. It is the late 1970s in Austin and young funk group Extreme ...

People think of Prince and they think ‘vocalist, songwriter, guitarist,’” he says, but, “his bass playing: bar none.” Turning ...

Whether you’re a music prodigy or you listen to Spotify for an hour a year, Telula is bound to wow you with their energy, ...

The peerless producer "passed away peacefully" at his Los Angeles home on Sunday night, his publicist has announced.

Dawn Richard is also fresh off releasing her second collaborative album with composer Spencer Zahn, Quiet In A World Full of ...

Welcome to Defector Music Club, where a number of our writers get together to dish about an album. Today, Dave McKenna, Luis Paez-Pumar, David Roth, and Lauren Theisen explore Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 ...

For years, David Rowell has been asking "Do we even want new music anymore?" He's found out the terrible answer.

Anyone with a passing knowledge of rock is aware of its origins back in the late 1940s and early 1950s when blues, rhythm and ...