UK prog-rockers Gracious! acquired their exclamation mark when their first album was released in July 1970. Up to this point, they were Gracious. Barney Bubbles, who designed their LP’s sleeve, added ...

By the time Kees Dieffenthaller, better known simply as Kes, and his bandmates step onto the stage of Frederick P. Rose Hall ...

Our favorite albums of the year include a new release from Chance the Rapper and the final album engineered by Steve Albini.

Eagle-eyed tQ readers will have spotted that there was no best-of-November round-up last month, in order to make room for our ...

Cliff, who died Nov. 24 of pneumonia at his home in Kingston at age 81, soon had a cult following that spread far beyond West Indian neighborhoods to launch reggae as a force that has yet to let go of ...

What sets it apart is the confidence of its makers. The songs are genuine earworms, lyrics crisp and playful, the score darting from Spanish pop and calypso to hints of Sondheim. Like all good magpies ...

By Angela Sargent Crowds streamed into Holy Trinity Cathedral as soon as the doors were opened for the PAAMOA Community Choir ...

The Jamaican singer-songwriter and star of ‘The Harder They Come,’ who died Monday at age 81, was pivotal in bringing the genre onto the world stage. Even in 1969, Jimmy Cliff, who died Monday at age ...

Some performers grow into the spotlight. Others arrive with a quiet pull that audiences feel before the first note is sung. Paris Coutain learned this early. Long before he understood the full reach ...

After creating musical odes to America’s natural wonders, John Denver selected a new subject for his final RCA Records winner; “Calypso” also became the singing poet’s last visit to Billboard’s Top 10 ...