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By Harvey Kubernik c 2016 Stax Records, an imprint of Concord Bicycle Music, is pleased to announce the Friday October 21st release of Otis Redding – Live At The Whisky A Go Go: The Complete Recordings via Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading...

Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues by Joel Selvin; Counterpoint (320 pages, $17.95) — The music business is a decidedly mixed advertisement for American culture in the twentieth century. Gifted...

Music suffered heavy losses in 2016, a year like no other in recent memory. We bid unexpected farewells to the very brightest stars — David Bowie and Prince — but we also lost masters from every corner of the music world, from classical composers and...

Happy Birthday this week to: Jul 31 1923 ● Seth Avett → Turkish immigrant who co-founded and became chief executive of Atlantic Records, a dominant force in jazz, R&B and pop/rock and a prime force in moving Black American music into the mainstream...

Nature or nurture: the eternal psychological conundrum, and one that can be interestingly applied to Columbia president Rob Stringer in regard to his obsession with music. He remembers being “ridiculously passionate” about it pretty much...