With Catch a Fire, the band known then as simply The Wailers, created a bridge between the deep roots sound of Jamaica and the commercial rock music of the international market, particularly the USA ...

Live's beloved More Cowbell sketch was originally pitched with a different instrument and written for a completely different ...

Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on ...

Private Dancer was the biggest-selling album of Tina Turner's career A song recorded for Tina Turner's blockbuster album Private Dancer, that was presumed lost, has been rediscovered and received ...

Christopher Walken told Will Ferrell that their famous “More Cowbell” Saturday Night Live ... who wrote and sang lead vocals on the song, told the Washington Post in 2005: “We’re huge ...

"He's gonna do it! He's gonna do it! He's gonna f---in' do it!" Grohl recalls thinking.

He doesn’t need more cowbell. “Saturday Night Live’s ... the fictional process of Blue Oyster Cult recording their hit song, “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.” Ferrell plays an overzealous ...

After a dress rehearsal at 8 p.m. on Saturday, a few more sketches are cut at ... including that he loved the song as a kid and kept the cowbell-question notion germinating for decades.

“More Cowbell” (2000), written by none other than ... What one may have never noticed about this well-liked epic song until the sketch debuted in April 2000 is that there is a constant clank ...

“More Cowbell” made it all but impossible to listen to the song “Don’t Fear the Reaper” without hearing the consistent percussion rumbling away in the background. The writer and star of ...