Rock

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews It Still Moves, the new album from My Morning Jacket.

Warren Zevon died Sunday of lung cancer at the age of 56. Rock critic Ken Tucker pays tribute.

Pete Best was the drummer for The Beatles in their early days in Liverpool and Hamburg. His mother, Mona Best, was the owner of The Casbah Coffee Club in Liverpool. The various early incarnations of The Beatles played The Casbah more than 90 times. Best has just co-written a large-format book, The Beatles: The True Beginnings. Today he writes, records and tours with his own group, The Pete Best Band.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Rabbit Songs by the group Hem.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the self-titled album from singer songwriter Liz Phair.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews The Trouble With Being Myself, the new album from Macy Gray.

Rock critic Ken Tucker concludes his look at the current pop-rock bands, with a look at the Brooklyn-based quartet High Strung. Their debut CD is These Are Good Times.

Sun Studios founder Sam Phillips died today in Memphis at the age of 80. He was revered as one of the leading catalysts in post-World War II American music. As a record producer in the 1950s and 60s, his recordings launched the careers of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, to name a few. This interview first aired September 15, 1997.

A conversation with music writer Peter Guralnick about the death of Sun Studios founder Sam Phillips. Guralnick is the author of a two volume biography of Elvis Presley: Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Fever to Tell, the debut album by the rock trio Yeah Yeah Yeahs, led by singer Karen O.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Electric Version, the new CD from The New Pornographers.

Rock critic Ken Tucker continues his look at the latest in pop rock. He reviews the CD Red Head by the Boston-based musician known as Bleu (his real name is William McAuley).

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Welcome Interstate Managers the new CD by Fountains of Wayne.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Say You Will, the new CD by Fleetwood Mac, their first collection of new material in eight years. It's also without Christine McVie.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Beneath This Gruff Exterior, the new album by John Hiatt and a new John Hiatt tribute album, The Songs of John Hiatt.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews two new releases from two new bands: Up The Bracket by the British band The Libertines and Love and Distortion by the San Francisco band The Stratford 4.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Elephant, the new album by the White Stripes.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews The Party’s Over by the Smoking Popes which they recorded in 1998 just before the band broke up. It's just been released.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews new albums from The Buzzcocks and Paul Weller, the frontman from the band The Jam. The album titles are Buzzcocks and Illumination.

Music critic Ken Tucker reviews American Life, the new CD by Madonna.