He was giving us back the songs he’d taken away so many years ago, validating their worth again, and our love for them.

Listen to 'My Girl's Pussy,' a not-so-innocent song from 1931

Dan Auerbach

2017

Dead Seem Old

Charles Bradley has died at the age of 68, according to Pitchfork. He had been battling stomach cancer and recently cancelled his tour dates after it was revealed his cancer had returned. He was originally diagnosed with a stomach tumor in October of 2016. At the time of the announcement, he was forced to cancel his tour dates.

Taken By Trees

Linkin Park has announced their first concert since singer Chester Bennington died in July. The hard-rock group will perform a one-off “celebration” to honor Bennington on Oct. 27 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The performance will feature “a number of other artists,” according to a press release. Linkin Park’s members plan to donate their fees from the gig to Music For Relief’s One More Light Fund; Bennington and the rest of Linkin Park began the charity Music For Relief following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and the One More Light Fund was established after Bennington’s death.

Roll back the clock precisely 20 years, and you’d encounter a curious phenomenon bubbling up in Detroit. September 1997: Kid Rock had just landed a major-label record deal. Little-known Eminem was about to catch Dr. Dre’s ear and land his own. The face-painted duo Insane Clown Posse was grabbing headlines and hitting the charts amid controversy.

Ludovico Einaudi

Arctic Monkeys

Thee Oh Sees' Dwyer has a prolific career as a rock musician, concert promoter and record label owner in California.

Tony Stringfellow had only been married for a couple of weeks, and had just dropped his new wife off at work.

Palehound

The former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli has taken to eBay to sell the one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album he purchased for $2 million two years ago. Shkreli, who was convicted of securities fraud in August, bought the only existing copy of the Wu-Tang Clan's album "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" by placing the highest bid at an auction for it in Sept. 2015.

Defying the very limits of genre (as to be expected when signed to Flying Lotus' label), Iglooghost's eclecticism is primed for a breakthrough.

1998. This song created a new style of music, combining French rap and Breton melodies.

Walter Becker, bassist, guitarist and co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted band Steely Dan, died Sunday at the age of 67.

From the album "Lightning on the strings, thunder on the mic"

Sigur Rós

From the brand new album Lust for Life, out now.

Over the past few years a general nostalgia for the 1980s has infiltrated music, film, and television. I deeply love those gated reverb drums of the '80s - you know that punchy percussive sound popularized by Phil Collins and Prince? So for my second episode of Vox Pop’s Earworm I spoke with two Berklee College of Music professors, Susan Rogers and Prince Charles Alexander, to figure out just how that sound came to be, what makes it so damn punchy, and why it’s back.

David Bowie

The long read: More and more singers are cancelling big shows and turning to surgery to fix their damaged vocal cords. But is the problem actually down to the way they sing?

2014

Placing drum-standards very high.

The “Migos flow” deconstructed.

U2 has announced it is canceling Saturday's stadium show in St. Louis amid the protests over Friday's acquittal of a police officer charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of an African-American driver. "We have been informed by the St. Louis Police Department that they are not in a position to provide the standard protection for our audience as would be expected for an event of this size," the band said in a joint statement with tour promoter Live Nation published on U2's website.

Jane Zhang