Today in Music History for Dec. 18: In 1707, English hymn writer Charles Wesley was born. He wrote more than 6,500 hymns, including "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing." ...

Very few artists can be called revolutionary; trumpeter Miles Davis, composers Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky, and ...

Rivers, who co-founded the nu metal band with Fred Durst and John Otto in 1994, died last month at the age of 48 ...

Along with his older brother, Logan, Baren was an obsessive fan of the British Invasion sound of the 1960s. The band signed ...

Some books give Smith's birthdate as Dec. 8, 1925, but more recent sources cite 1928 as his birth year. Regardless, the late musician always delivered the goods, even as the beats behind him changed.