Peplowski, who died Feb. 2, started playing clarinet professionally at age 10 and went on to perform with the Benny Goodman Orchestra and to record on his own. Originally broadcast July 7, 1999.

The '60s and '70s were times of massive cultural upheaval. Musicians took on the task of asking big questions and trying to figure it all out. These ten songs understood the assignment. Schumer calls ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

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If 1965 was the year when pop and rock music started to take its first baby steps toward adulthood, as more artists began to explore albums as defining statements rather than collections of hit ...

To boil Zach Bryan's new Heaven On Top album down to the songs about his relationships is to simplify a rich, complex 78 minutes of country/rock emotion. Just as interesting are the creative country ...

This year in music had no shortage of hits, but only a handful of songs truly rose above the rest. Whether they dominated the charts, took over social media or just refused to leave our heads, these ...

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“El Carneciro” is Spanish for “the butcher” and it’s the name of Benny’s new double single. His pen remains fierce, but it’s getting to a point where he’s flexing his mastery of the craft. BENNY THE ...

So there was no official song of summer. So let’s move beyond the biggest hits and check out the 10 songs we kept coming back to this year. The singer-songwriter who has worked with Miley Cyrus, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Not long ago, plagiarist-turned-MAGA-influencer Benny Johnson stood in a parking ...