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1 week ago | allmusic.com | Zac Johnson

It's not our usual beat to commemorate the loss of a sports figure on AllMusic, but Jim Irsay, the owner & CEO of the NFL's Indianapolis Colts, seemed more like a rocker at heart. Many team owners with more money than they know what to do with often spend their fortunes on race cars, sports memorabilia, real estate, and divorces, but Irsay had a passion for collecting guitars, artifacts from history, and objects of pop culture fascination.

2 weeks ago | allmusic.com | David Bloom

Born 1990 in Birmingham, AL Styles Chamber Music, Modern Composition, Orchestral, Vocal Music

1 month ago | allmusic.com | Zac Johnson

Space, the funky frontier. In the recent season of the Star Wars Disney+ series Andor, the usually quiet and reserved senator Mon Mothma literally let her hair down and cut loose on the dance floor. What was the cause? Celebrating her daughter's marriage? Escaping from the horrors of funding an underground rebellion? A few too many Chandrilan Squigs?

1 month ago | allmusic.com | Daniel de Visé

A lot of great rock and roll music in the 1980s didn't sell, and many of the best artists reaped neither fortune nor fame. Many music-heads refer to that decade as the college radio era, or the indie rock era. It spans the peak years of Camper Van Beethoven, the Smiths, Cocteau Twins and other bands that became big names only later, if at all. In earlier articles, we surveyed some standout albums of the New Wave years (1978-1982) and college radio era (1983-86).

1 month ago | allmusic.com | Zac Johnson

For decades, the country music being played on the radio has maintained the well-travelled backroads of pickup trucks, cans of beer, old dogs and cheating hearts. Bubbling under these platinum-selling artists are a subtler, more literary set of musicians usually tagged under the less marketable but more austere subgenre of Contemporary Folk or the Grammy-friendly category of Americana. For every Big & Rich there is a Rhiannon Giddens, and crossing over every Florida Georgia Line is a Nickel Creek.