Today in Music History for Dec. 23: In 1893, the Engelbert Humperdinck opera "Haensel und Gretel" was first performed, in Weimar, Germany.

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A look at news events in January 2025: 1 - Nearly all of Puerto Rico started 2025 in the dark after a blackout hit the U.S.

Ronald David Mael, born on August 12, 1945, in Culver City, California, is an American musician, composer, and songwriter ...

A ton of top-notch classic rock albums came out in 1973, but the following three records were on a totally different level.

A veteran of the Fluxus art movement, he brought an anarchic spirit to the California acid-rock scene with his band, the ...

Joseph Byrd, leader of the pioneering psychedelic rock band the United States of America, died in November at the age of 87.

The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter played in the Flatlanders and Los Super Seven, and hopped on songs by the Clash, Uncle ...

The 1970s produced some of the biggest names in music history—Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, Elton John. But the decade was also full of talented artists who briefly dominated the charts, ...

Born JoAnne Deborah Byron in 1947 into a family of strivers in Queens, she split her time between her mother’s home in New ...

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I’m not going to lie: 2025 was not a year that’s easy to put a rosy spin on, even in the introductory blurb to a list of the ...