Friends and Collaborators Remember Nightlife Pioneer Billy Jones

Billy Jones

Billy Jones, photographed by Rob Blair. Last weekend, we lost one of the linchpins of New York’s music and nightlife community, Billy Jones. Jones had an extensive career as a booking agent and artist manager […]

Sly & The Family Stone Leader & Funk-Rock Pioneer Was 82

Sly Stone dead

Sly Stone, a Grammy winner whose pioneering funk-rock group Sly and the Family Stone produced groundbreaking albums and singles — three of which topped the Billboard Hot 100 — and was the subject of this […]

Sly Stone dead at 82 after long health battle as family mourns Sly and the Family Stone singer as ‘true pioneer’

Portrait of a smiling man wearing a knit cap.

MUSIC legend Sly Stone, frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, has passed away at the age of 82, The U.S. Sun has learned.  The musician’s death comes after a “prolonged battle” with COPD, otherwise […]

Watch Trailer For ‘Mr. Polaroid,’ Doc On Instant Photography Pioneer

Edwin Land demonstrates his instant camera or Land Camera, manufactured by Polaroid, circa 1947

EXCLUSIVE: The idea of taking a photograph anywhere, anytime and see the image immediately has become entirely routine. But in the 1940s, the concept was revolutionary. Long before smart phones made instant photography possible, inventor […]

Roy Haynes, Pioneer Of Modern Jazz Drumming, Has Passed Away

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Roy Haynes has passed away. He was the last surviving member of a small but elite cadre of drummers who rose to fame in the mid-1940s, introducing conversational elements into jazz’s rhythmic vocabulary and challenging […]

Greta Gerwig Accepts Motion Picture Pioneer Of The Year Award

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Greta Gerwig was beaming Wednesday night as she was honored as this year’s Pioneer Of The Year, and in the process also helped raised $1.4 million for the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation at […]

Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond sued for $75k after customer collapses and suffers ‘severe injury’ in star’s Oklahoma shop

Ree Drummond is being sued for $75,000 after an elderly woman reportedly suffered a severe injury at her shop

REE Drummond is being sued for $75,000 after an elderly woman reportedly suffered a severe injury at her shop. The Pioneer Woman star is being taken to court after Maria Chavez apparently tripped over a […]

Barack Obama Praises SAG-AFTRA, WGA Agreements, Pays Tribute To “Rustin” Civil Rights Pioneer At D.C. Screening – Deadline

Barack Obama Praises SAG-AFTRA, WGA Agreements, Pays Tribute To “Rustin” Civil Rights Pioneer At D.C. Screening – Deadline

Former President Barack Obama made mention of the end of Hollywood’s labor strife at a special screening on Friday of Rustin, the Netflix biopic of civil rights Bayard Rustin made by he and former First […]

In 1980 This Software Pioneer Skipped One Meeting (To Fly His Plane!)… That Was A $100+ Billion Mistake

In 1980 This Software Pioneer Skipped One Meeting (To Fly His Plane!)... That Was A $100+ Billion Mistake

With a net worth of $126 billion, Bill Gates is the fourth richest person in the world right now. Not being #1 is actually a fairly new phenomenon for Mr. Gates. From the mid-1990s until […]

Bossa nova pioneer Carlos Lyra at 90: ‘We wrote songs about our reality: the beach, sun and love stories’ | Music

Carlos Lyra in 1954.

In 1959, Carlos Lyra’s musical partner and lyricist Ronaldo Bôscoli said that bossa nova is a state of mind. Lyra thought he was talking nonsense. “Today, I’m actually agreeing with him,” he reflects more than […]

Dorothy Ashby was the pioneer harpist who opened up the instrument to Black musicians like me | Music

Brandee Younger performing in 2019.

I began playing harp at 11 and the traditional path to follow with the instrument was the classical music one, where all the players I saw or studied were white. I found it quite an […]

Avant-Pop Pioneer ANOHNI Makes Us a Playlist of Underground Treasures

Avant-Pop Pioneer ANOHNI Makes Us a Playlist of Underground Treasures

This is SOUND ADVICE, a weekly destination for playlists curated by Interview’s friends, enemies, and lovers. This week’s installment comes from ANOHNI, a cult music legend who needs no introduction. Known for her transgressive art, […]