Eddie Cochran

Texas-born singer-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo kicks off his latest album, "Big Station" (Fantasy/Concord), with "Man of the World," a throwback rocker that doubles as another musical chapter in his remarkable autobiography. Read More

While Mark Wenner is the only original member still in the Washington D.C.-based Nighthawks, the band has maintained a more or less consistent sound since its live debut in 1972. Read More

Ty Segall and Tim Presley (who records as White Fence , among other monikers and bands) are two young stars of a scene that's been classified under many different names—garage, psych, garage-punk, psych-punk, flower-punk, psych-pop, and so on—but is almost always described in broad terms as "retro."Read More

Hank Cochran was one of the most prolific and successful songwriters to call Nashville home. Read More

Sonny Vincent's Testors are the great lost punk band of New York City '77—high-intensity guitar warfare at its finest that went almost totally unreleased until a trickle of issues in the 2000s and a deluxe discog on John Reis' Swami that presented the Testors in all their gory glory. Read More

When the Doors went on "American Bandstand" in the late 1960s, Dick Clark wanted Jim Morrison, the leather-clad "Lizard King," to wear a tie. Read More

When the Doors went on American Bandstand in the late Sixties, Dick Clark wanted Jim Morrison, the Lizard King in leather, to wear a tie. Read More

(Gibson) On this day in 1960, Touring in the U.K., 21-year-old singer Eddie Cochran was killed when the taxi he was traveling in crashed into a lamppost on Rowden Hill, Chippenham, Wiltshire (where a plaque now commemorates the event). Read More