If one look or music style doesn’t hit, why not change it up? Plenty of now-famous rock stars looked widely different when they first hit the music scene, but have since refined their image and found ...

Art-rock band Salem 66 tore through the underground music scene in Boston in the 1980s. The group played alongside musicians like Amherst-born rock band Dinosaur Jr., toured across the country and ...

Who are the 'Big 4' of masked rock and metal bands? There's a rich and storied history of heavy bands going beyond imagery within the music to punch up and complete their vision. Even without masks, ...

In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the Cederberg ...

Rock music has been the heartbeat of rebellion, innovation, and raw emotion for decades. From electrifying guitar solos to ...

Sometimes art imitates life, and sometimes life imitates art. The latter seems to be the case this year as the rock industry pulls a Spinal Tap and drummers quit or get fired en masse. More than a ...

In collaboration with Indigenous elders and ritual specialists, archaeologists have shed light on the meaning of ancient rock art from the Amazon rainforest in a study. A trio of researchers has been ...

A remarkable set of prehistoric rock art sites likely provided hunter-gatherers with an enchanting "multisensory experience" thanks to their special acoustic properties, a study has revealed.

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