Third Eye Blind’s fourth studio album, Ursa Major, released last week on Megaforce, topped Twist & Shout’s charts for the week ending August, 23. Brendan Benson, who was releasing his own albums years ...

Everybody knows the Isley Brothers, a family band with era-defining hits in every decade since its start in the 1950s with “Twist and Shout,” “This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You),” “Shout, Pts. 1 ...

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Twist and Shout Records is hosting a special in-store performance with The Pretenders on Oct. 26. The band will play an acoustic set starting at 7 p.m. Beginning Oct. 21, those who purchase the band's ...

To observers of the contemporary American musical scene, the Isley Brothers are generally regarded as the most significant contributors to twentieth century Western culture. Their two albums, Shout ...

Rock ’n’ roll staples don’t come much bigger than “Twist and Shout.” More than half a century since it was first penned by Bronx-born songwriter Bert Berns (and his occasional partner Phil Medley), it ...

The Monkees were widely accused of ripping off The Beatles. “Ripping-off” was usually too strong a word for the inspiration that the Prefab Four took from the Fab Four, but the word applied well to a ...

The Who were supposed to be finished with touring in 1982. The band had originally planned a tour around their 1982 album It’s Hard, but they later told the press that it would be their last ever tour ...

Everybody knows the Isley Brothers, a family band with era-defining hits in every decade since its start in the 1950s with “Twist and Shout,” “This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You),” “Shout, Pts. 1 ...