Ryan's Smashing Life — INTRODUCTIONS ARE IN ORDER - American rock & roll. It's a genre that's thrived for more than 50 years, fueled by a long line of true believers — from Buddy Holly to Tom Petty to Bruce Springsteen — with electric guitars in their hands a... more info

Stereogum — In the ’80s and ’90s, the great Berkeley punk rock band the Mr. T Experience helped develop a caustic, self-deprecating, melodically sweet form of pop-punk, one that really helped shape the way ’90s punk would sound. MTX were great songwriters,... more info

Rolling Stone — Bobby Bones takes a seat behind his desk in the modest office he occupies in the iHeartMedia building on Nashville's Music Row. Country radio's most polarizing and outspoken DJ has just come off the air and, dressed in khaki jogging pants, a teal swe... more info

Rolling Stone — Terry Allen, painter, sculptor, writer and musician, was once asked his definition of art. He thought a moment and replied, "To get out of town." Though Lubbock, Texas, where he grew up, was home to Buddy Holly and Waylon Jennings, Allen still cou... more info

Guardian Music — What do you do when you’re fed up of modern pop and worrying how to make a living? You make a record summoning the spirit of 1962If you play an acoustic guitar, and can draw a crowd of 300 or so, each of whom has a few dollars to spare, then t... more info

Stereogum — The United States didn’t protect copyrights for sound recordings until 2/15/72. Thanks to that legal loophole, Pandora has never paid royalties on music recorded before 1972, claiming that it was all part of the public domain. The policy that has d... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Texas guitarist and singer Bobby Fuller had barely found his way into the national limelight in 1966, with his group’s soon-to-be-classic reworking of a song first recorded by Buddy Holly, when he died mysteriously of asphyxiation in Los Angeles. ... more info

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The Telegraph — Why are Buddy Holly's six last songs so full of misery? more info

The Telegraph — Buddy Holly died in an air crash on on this day in 1958, but his influence is as great as ever more info