As she releases her second solo album Radios & Rainbows, Kate Pierson, the founding member of the B-52’s takes BEST FIT through the pivotal songs in her life.

The singer, who died this week, was the mother of Whitney Houston and a contender for the greatest voice of the country, our ...

“Duke Ellington described us one time — ‘The ... I said `No ma’am. But you can’t get me now.’ She just laughed. I had to let her hear it.” Through the ups and down of her life and career, Staples has ...

That’s something I wanted to remind everybody about, specifically in this day and time that we live in ... There’s the legendary Mavis Staples, carrying the torch of her family’s deep ...

When Mavis Staples sings, what exudes from her mouth is the soulful rasp of age, firmly linked to the sound of rock of ages. As witnessed in her latest Santa Barbara concert, last week in the ...

When I think of Kamala Harris I think of the Battle of Bunker Hill in Boston when a colonial officer shouted, “Don’t fire till you see the whites of their eyes.” The British ultimately won ...

By Thom Duffy Editor One early autumn day ... Dave Matthews and Margo Price — on a bill with Mavis Staples, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Lukas Nelson with the Travelin’ McCourys ...

Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz is one of the greatest concert films of all time. Full stop. And for a certain kind of music ...

Mavis Staples gave a lively performance ... Breathe,” co-led by Lukas. After Tom Waits’ “Last Leaf,” a fitting piece of music given the time of year, the entire course of guest performers ...