Phil Ochs was among the best songwriters ever, particularly among the segment of the songwriting profession we classify as topical, politically-oriented, or “protest music,” as the form was ...

Phil Ochs and Hunter S Thompson were key components of the counterculture scene. The duo were poltical and poetic forces that gave the 1960s its grit ...

I never met Phil Ochs. Seeing as how I was only 11 when he hung himself in 1976, the prospects of such a meeting were decidedly slim. The disturbing thing, however, is that most Americans, even those ...

Late in his short life, Phil Ochs, one of the shining lights of the Greenwich Village folk protest movement, worried whether his songs would be remembered. The news from four decades on is good. Neil ...

The late Phil Ochs used to boast that most of his songs were inspired by reading Newsweek. He sang about Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement, and preferred to be called a "singing journalist" rather ...

Jacob “Jack” Ochs was born in Manhattan on Aug. 11, 1909, the youngest of four children. While attending medical school in Edinburgh, Scotland, he fell in love with Gertrude Phin ...

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When Roxy Music fans first heard that cofounder and lead singer Bryan Ferry had recorded a batch of 1950s and '60s rock hits, the news must have seemed as surprising as Bob Dylan's decision decades ...

The No Ones are one of the two newish indie supergroups to feature a former member of R.E.M. In this case, it’s jangly guitar hero Peter Buck. In the No Ones, Buck teams up with Young Fresh fellows ...