It was just really powerful." Prince's fifth album, 1999, exploded onto America's music scene. Released in 1983, it included such hits as "Little Red Corvette" and "1999." It also set the stage ...

In 1978, a 19-year-old Minneapolis musician named Prince Rogers Nelson arrived on the scene with an album titled "For You." It was an auspicious debut, primarily because the remarkably versatile ...

Born to jazz musician John L. Nelson and Mattie Della Shaw in 1960, two years after Prince, Nelson was a singer-songwriter, ...

Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney were already underground-music veterans when they recorded their strange, hypnotic, generally ...

Prince was no stranger to sexually explicit lyricism, but his song 'Superfunkycalifragisexy' feels like a poor attempt at recreating his signature charm.

Labi reveals what sets such a great inspiration apart from the rest. So you could say he's a bit of a fan. Labi Siffre discusses Jimmy Reed, and his own inability to play Bobby Shafto. We think ...