Kevin Gates is the stage name of the American rapper Kevin Jerome Gilyard. His career started in the late 2000s. However, he didn’t start seeing a significant breakthrough until the early 2010s, not least because…
The Allman Brothers Band was started by the brothers Gregg and Duane Allman. The two were active in various bands until 1969 when they launched their now-iconic band called The Allman Brothers Band. Since that…
Back in 2014, Bandman Kevo was a promising young rapper on the Chicago scene with a bag of mixtapes behind him and a bright future in front of him. Then it all went wrong. He…
Ralph Stanley was born in the 1920s. That means he was of the right age to become one of the first bluegrass musicians when the genre emerged in the post-war period. It is no exaggeration…
Any article about the Grateful Dead eventually has to tackle the elephant in the room. The Grateful Dead’s fusion of rock, psychedelia, jazz, folk, R&B, and whatever else had tickled their fancy that week didn’t…
Johnny Cash is such a big name in country music that even people who don’t listen to that particular genre of music know who he is. Over the course of many decades, he sang hundreds…
Vance Joy went from being an Australian rules footballer to being a singer-songwriter. Generally speaking, he is known because of his second single, “Riptide,” in 2012. However, interested individuals should know he has never stopped…
During the 1990s, rap became mainstream, even crossing over into politics. Politics and rap collided when Ice-T and Bodycount released Cop Killer and challenged the first amendment. Warner Brothers didn’t censor the song’s lyrics about…
ABBA is easily one of the most influential music groups of all time. Hitting the peak of popularity during the 1970s, this is a group that many people still listen to with fervor today. In…