The Roots are busy: they play every night as the house band forLate Night with Jimmy Fallon, drummer Questlove has over one million followers on Twitter, and last month the band releasedWake Up!, a collaboration with John Legend. It was their 10th studio album in twenty years and the second released this year. Clearly, The […]
The music world lost two legends on Monday. Jerry Leiber, who wrote hits for Elvis Presley, Ben E. King, and the Coasters, died at 78 in Los Angeles. His first hit, Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog,” took him and songwriting partner Mike Stoller to the top of the charts when he was only 17. Nick Ashford, […]