Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Dr. John McLaughlin, longtime host of his eponymous TV show “The McLaughlin Group”, died. He was 89. In a Facebook post the family wrote: On Sunday, McLaughlin was too ill to appear on The McLaughlin ...

Talk about a trial by heavy metal fire! English guitar giant John McLaughlin and Indian tabla drum virtuoso Zakir Hussain had just released the 1975 debut album by Shakti — their all-acoustic, Indian ...

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To hear them tell it, the cofounders of Shakti — guitar great John McLaughlin, 81, and tabla master Zakir Hussain, 72 — are ecstatic whenever the group reunites for a concert. So expect the group’s ...

Will the real Remember Shakti please stand up? On its first live release, Remember Shakti was a serious-minded, bottom-ended, soul-searching ensemble. This time out, Remember Shakti raises its pitch.

NEW YORK (AP) — John McLaughlin, the conservative political commentator and host of the namesake long-running television show that pioneered hollering-heads discussions of Washington politics, has ...

John McLaughlin had a chance to jam with Jimi Hendrix. It could have resulted in glorious meeting of two supremely talented guitarists. Instead, he says, it was a “disaster.” And it was all because of ...

Colorful Miles Davis stories are legion – a quick Google search will net you plenty revolving around the jazz icon's famous temper. Davis was just as formidable when it came to his musical vision, a ...

NEW YORK (AP) - John McLaughlin, the conservative political commentator and host of the namesake long-running television show that pioneered hollering-heads discussions of Washington politics, has ...