Gunmen shot dead Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral on Saturday as his car made its way to the airport in Guatemala City, police said.
Inspired by the ocean, Colin Meloy and Nate Query talk about the Decemberists' new sound.
Nate Query is having what he calls a "Spinal Tap moment."
The next issue of Rolling Stone -- on stands and in the digital archive on May 13th -- celebrates Bob Dylan's 70th birthday (happening on May 24th) by ranking his 70 greatest songs.
"Like a Rolling Stone" (Highway 61 Revisited, 1965) By Bono
Fans celebrate after UConn defeats Butler to win the NCAA's men's basketball national championship.
The men's NCAA Division I hoops championship game is tonight, and we can't tell you whether UConn or Butler is going to win. We can predict two things, though. The winning team will cut down the nets. And CBS will show a highlight montage set to the song "One Shining Moment." Let's take a look at the origins of these traditions.
If you have Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" on your computer, you should play it while you read this. If you have it on vinyl, even better.
Featuring something old and something new, singer Bob Dylan rolls onto the Grammy stage this weekend for a performance with Best New Artist nominee Mumford & Sons and roots rockers The Avett Brothers.
Robert Plant's 2007 album with pop-bluegrass songbird Alison Krauss, Raising Sand, did something 25 years of solo records never quite managed. It fully transformed him from former Led Zeppelin golden god into a roots singer. Plant had never sung so tenderly or collaboratively, commanding a crack modern string band that defined power in terms other than "Physical Graffiti".
"Dylanesque" Somali rapper K'naan talks about survival guilt, the World Cup and learning English through hip-hop.
Before the protests of tuition hikes last week, a colleague posted the following: "Need suggestions for protest songs. We have a DJ but need to give her a play list." The requests started coming in: Joan Baez, the Dixie Chicks, The Clash.
Civil rights songs were the soundtrack of the movement that helped bring President Obama to the White House. On Tuesday, Obama welcomed an array of artists to celebrate those songs.
Hear Marion Cotillard channel Janis Joplin, Kyra Sedgwick belt out Joni Mitchell and more sing-offs on the red carpet
Huston Smith sat at the bedside of his firstborn child, watching her life ebb away.
Fireworks and rock 'n' roll echoed across central Prague on Tuesday as thousands of marchers commemorated the 20th anniversary of the "Velvet Revolution" that toppled Communist rule.
CNN's Fionnuala Sweeney gets a glimpse into the shadowy underworld of the former Czech secret police.
Those who knew Canadian folk musician Taylor Mitchell say her passion for her craft was matched by her affinity for nature.
A rising Canadian folk singer was killed by coyotes this week in a national park in Nova Scotia, a park spokesman said Thursday.
Mary Travers of 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died, according to her publicist. She was 72.
CNN producer Jessica Ellis talks about the Woodstock images from iReporters. Mark Goff was a freelance photographer.
Cheryl Morse was 19 years old when she hitchhiked more than 700 miles from Chicago, Illinois, to Bethel, New York. She was determined to make it to the Woodstock music festival.
How does it feel? To be on your own? A complete unknown? Bob Dylan might know.
As summer winds to an end, beach umbrellas are coming down and pools are closing, but that doesn't mean the fun is finished. From the National Buffalo Wing Festival crowning the next 'wing king' to the country's best folk artists coming together in Pennsylvania, festivals across the country have fun for everyone.
Nanci Griffith wanted to look on the bright side.
The movie and Kung Fu TV star, 72, was in Bangkok shooting a film
American actor David Carradine has been found dead, hanging by a nylon rope in a hotel room closet in Bangkok, Thailand, according to a Thai police official.
The 90-year-old performer is one of many featured at this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Under blue skies on the main stage, with his grandson by his side, they close the set with the Woody Guthrie classic "This Land Is Your Land."
Twenty-five years ago, America discovered "one of England's loudest bands," courtesy of documentarian Marty DiBergi and his film, "This Is Spinal Tap."
Joan Baez is in a celebratory mood. And rightly so: She's survived 50 years in show business.
The high price of gas is hurting police departments throughout Minnesota. CNN affiliate KARE reports.
At times it may seem long gone, but the spirit of protest in popular music is not dead.
"This here ain't no protest song or anything like that, cause I don't write no protest songs."
Jerome White Jr. took the stage wearing an oversized baseball cap, baggy jeans and two gold chains -- an aspiring singer from the United States. The Japanese crowd heard a beat reminiscent of American-style hip hop -- but then White started to sing.
Just about every inspired film emerges out of some kind of obsession. The singular haunting beauty of "I'm Not There," Todd Haynes' thrilling deep-vision meditation on the music and many lives of Bob Dylan, is that obsession isn't just its fuel -- it's the movie's spirit and subject, its driving force.
I can tell you that some things in Russia may never change. No more than 10 minutes after we landed, my colleague walked through immigration only to have a male immigration officer query her single status and ask "Why no husband?"
Jac Holzman was in love with Love.
The song broke in the summer of 1965, a fired gun of a drum shot followed by words out of a fairy tale: "Once upon a time, you dressed so fine ..."
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