Blue Oyster Cult has been together for an astonishing 53 years. The beginnings of the band, then known as Soft White ...

Lanier saw it for her. Collaborating became a key part of their relationship as Smith co-wrote several Blue Öyster Cult songs ...

"We're all at the mercy of the cowbell sketch in different ways," Buck Dharma says.

Meanwhile, Blue Öyster Cult frontman Eric Bloom paid tribute to Lanier with a post on the group’s Facebook account. “I’ll miss the guy even though we hadn’t spoken in a while,” he said.

Along with Smith, Lanier also worked with the Clash, the Dictators, Jim Carroll, and John Cale, outside of Blue Öyster Cult. In 1973, Smith started writing and co-writing a series of songs that ...

We have heavy metal legend Buck Dharma of Blue Öyster Cult on the show! We discuss the latest studio album Ghost Stories coming out April 12, as well as how many of the songs have a long history with ...

Riffing on the themes he explores in his new book The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language, Keith Kahn-Harris shares his love of diacritics and explains how the heavy metal umlaut might be less ...