Tina Turner was more than a singer and performer. She was a creative icon who defied the norms of what a Black woman or Black artist should be. In addition to several chart-topping hits spanning ...

To live in the Midwest, in Missouri especially, is to hear sounds colliding. Our state is a gathering place for wondrous strains of rock, pop, blues, folk and country; and here, these fragments so ...

When you’re looking back at an album that’s 40 years old, it’s tough to locate the context of the original time of the recording if you weren’t there when it happened. The tendency is to then ...

1985 was a big year for music, especially in the rock and pop industries. We saw bands such as Tears for Fears, the Dire ...