In a recent interview guitarist Nels Cline described seeing John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra as "...like having all your body hair singed off in one fell swoop." Similar words could be used to ...

If there was ever an oxymoron to rival the famous examples of "jumbo shrimp," "deafening silence," or open secret," it's the term for one of the worst of all music genres: soft rock. I mean, what is ...

Richard and Karen Carpenter sit by the ocean, dressed in dinner-party duds and beaming directly into the camera lens, which is pulled to the softest possible focus. The photo on the cover of the ...