Saturday, March 21


Another Little Piece of Joplin

In the 1960s, blues rocker Janis Joplin turned the music industry upside down with her soulful ballads, becoming the emblem of San Francisco rock and the hippie movement. Read more...


Soundbite: Spiritualized

In June 2005, Jason Pierce, the main visionary behind Spiritualized's orchestral drug rock, was rushed to Royal London Hospital, where he was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia and experienced a near brush with his longtime lyrical preoccupation: death. Read more...




A tribute to his attributes

Years before George Clooney, Matthew McConaughey or Tom Hanks, it was James "Jimmy" Stewart who was Hollywood's suave and sophisticated all-American actor. Read more...