For many, Chess Records, which Polish brothers Leonard and Phil Chess founded exactly 75 years ago, is the greatest recording studio in Chicago.

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When Kiss star Gene Simmons went to the funeral of Chuck Berry, he hadn’t planned on making a speech – but that’s how it turned out. And as he now tells MusicRadar, he was disappointed that other ...

Chuck E. Cheese makes music — and now it’s available in Spanish and Arabic, too. The Irving-headquartered family entertainment giant launched the 12-track, roughly 30-minute albums this week on all ...

The instrumental hit reached No. 4 on the Billboard singles chart in 1977. Chuck Mangione, the Grammy-winning jazz bandleader and musician who scored an unlikely top-five hit in 1978 with the jazz ...

Chuck Berry was known for being a pioneer in the world of rock ‘n’ roll, with early hits like “Johnny B. Goode,” “Roll Over Beethoven” and “Sweet Little Sixteen.” But while he was a great rock ‘n’ ...

ST. LOUIS – Juneteenth celebrations in downtown St. Louis concluded with a powerful tribute to legendary Black musicians, including the city’s own Chuck Berry, at the “Jewelteenth” event at St. Louis ...

David Ling, front left, and Jason Davis, both of Duluth, sit in the VIP section at Bayfront Festival Park for Tone Loc's show Sunday, July 3, 2005. Tone Loc's show was one of Fourth Fest's four Sunday ...

The album, which the Public Enemy frontman describes as a “compilation of voices,” includes guest verses from Schoolly D, Phill Most Chill and many more. From A Tribe Called Quest’s “Show Business” ...

Chuck D‘s new solo single, “New Gens,” contains multitudes: Its music is a wild, febrile tapestry of soulful horns, dubby echoes, and old-school beats that recall Chuck’s Bomb Squad days, while his ...

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Let’s go back to the spring and summer of 1958 and events that had great future impact on geopolitics, business and art. That May, Fidel Castro led Cuban rebels against the dictatorship of Fulgencio ...