Pioneering production and genre-blending brilliance made up Led Zeppelin's iconic debut album, released 57 years ago today.

The most nuanced and relatable songs are often the most personal. We staunch and fervent music fans can smell disingenuous and empty lyrics from a mile away, and we’re never afraid to call them out.

A fascination with occult magic did nothing to help David Bowie's sanity in the mid '70s ...

Some bands are built on friendship. Others, like Led Zeppelin, revolved around good old-fashioned work. When Led Zeppelin parted ways in 1980, Jones' entire existence changed. "Being in Led Zeppelin ...

Nevertheless, they prevailed.

Some bands are built on friendship. Others, like Led Zeppelin, revolved around good old-fashioned work. “I mean, we weren’t like a group who grew up together and made it big,” bassist John Paul Jones ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Before joining The Faces and then eventually The Rolling Stones, this guitar player had the opportunity to join Led Zeppelin, ...

Led Zeppelin‘s crash landing led to a trio of often very surprising solo careers for its main songwriters and arrangers.

After a few years slightly adrift, the guitar god found his way back into arenas with the Firm in 1985, and leaned on some new tools along the way ...