Pioneering producer Ken Nelson was born on January 19, 1911, and had a hand in popularizing country music as we know it today ...

Music played a powerful role in the Civil Rights era, providing a soundtrack for the movement and inspiring hope for change with songs like "We Shall Overcome", "A Change Is Gonna Come", "People Get ...

The Broadway production of Ragtime was a glorious accomplishment, a riveting testament to the original American musical and ...

To celebrate the IU football team and its own ties to the Jacobs School of Music, the Indianapolis Symphony recorded "Indiana ...

Throughout history, musicians have used music as commentary on current events. It’s often powerful, and it’s a phenomenon ...

Whether or not you consider Wham!'s "Last Christmas" a gay song depends on how you see its lyrics and its creator. The 1984 Wham! song “Last Christmas” has become a regular holiday favorite among ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is now the longest-running No. 1 song in U.S. chart history. The 1994 modern Christmas classic has spent a cumulative 20 weeks atop the Billboard Hot ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

How often do you get a song in your head that you can’t stop humming or singing? As I was working on my laptop, my wife, Jackie, was reading emails on hers. I heard a big “ooo eee.” Before she could ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Pop music was not at all safe this year from the encroachments of an AI industry determined to slop-ify everything ...