News and InterviewsLos Lobos founding member Francisco González has diedElizabeth Blair • Apr 5, 2022Francisco González, a founding member of Los Lobos, has died at 68. González left the band in 1976 to continue playing acoustic Mexican folk music, and became a master of Veracruz harp.
News and InterviewsFoo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has died Luke Taylor • Mar 26, 2022Hawkins, who had been with Foo Fighters since 1997, was 50 years old.
In MemoriamMark Lanegan, Screaming Trees singer and voracious collaborator, dies at 57Lars Gotrich • Feb 22, 2022Mark Lanegan, known for his work in Queens of the Stone Age and The Gutter Twins, had a rumbling rasp in his voice that could convey the weight of the world.
In MemoriamDrummer Howard Grimes, the backbone of Memphis soul, dies at 80Hazel Cills • Feb 13, 2022His beats on songs including Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" served as a crucial foundation for the burgeoning Memphis soul sound of the 1970s.
In MemoriamGame was her middle name: The world was never ready for Betty DavisOliver Wang • Feb 13, 2022Raucous, outspoken and empowered, Davis, who died last week at 77, always knew what she wanted her music to be — raw — and she took control of her career in an era when few Black women could.
In MemoriamRIP, foundational Twin Cities hip-hop producer AnomalyAli Elabbady • Feb 11, 2022Jason Heinrichs, a DJ and producer who recorded with Atmosphere, P.O.S, Dylan Hicks, and many others, died this week at the age of 52
In MemoriamIan McDonald, founding member of King Crimson and Foreigner, has diedAnastasia Tsioulcas • Feb 11, 2022The multi-instrumentalist initially came blazing onto the scene with his saxophone on the opening cut of King Crimson's first album, In the Court of the Crimson King. He died Wednesday at age 75.
In MemoriamBetty Davis, funk pioneer and fashion icon, dies at 77Andrew Limbong • Feb 9, 2022Betty Davis, the pioneering funk singer and fashion icon who was married to jazz great Miles Davis, has died at age 77.
In MemoriamGeorge Crumb, an influential and deeply American composer, has died at age 92Anastasia Tsioulcas • Feb 7, 2022The Pulitzer Prize winner, whose music enveloped everything from the horrors of the Vietnam War to the calls of humpback whales, died Sunday.
In MemoriamSyl Johnson, Chicago soul singer widely sampled in hip-hop, is dead at 85Hazel Cills • Feb 6, 2022The singer's 1968 hit "Different Strokes" became a popular hip-hop sample used by artists like Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy and Kanye West.