Even taking into account his piano room full of sand, Brian Wilson was a schoolboy compared to the self-destructive, ever-shirtless former Stooges frontman Iggy Pop. But according to multiple ...

Protest songs transform emotion into action, and Bruce Springsteen's anthem to Minneapolis is one in a long line of powerful ...

Protest requires people to take a stand and hold firm. Pop songs are designed to appeal across demographic lines. In music, ...

No subgenre of 70s music proved quite as a memorable as Philly Soul. These four ballads were emblematic of that brilliance.

Bruce Springsteen has always been known as much for his voice as his convictions. In a move that has reverberated far beyond ...

Bruce Springsteen’s protest song ripping what he calls the “state terror” tactics by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is topping the music sales charts in the ...

Clergy demonstrating against ICE in Minneapolis have turned to classic ‘freedom songs’ – the music associated with protests ...

David Gates, Bread’s singer and songwriter, drew on real life to create the band’s fourth Top 5 hit, "Everything I Own." He channeled the grief of losing his father before his rise to rock stardom ...

Tennessee's country music queen is celebrating a milestone birthday. Parton was born Jan. 19, 1946 in a one-room cabin in Sevierville, Tennessee, as the fourth of 12 children. Since starting her music ...

According to legend, back in 1968, Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh fired Bob Weir and Pigpen from their positions in the Grateful Dead. Or maybe it was that Garcia and Lesh tried to fire Weir and Pig… or ...

Bob Weir was the everyman at the heart of the Grateful Dead, the one who kept the band’s feet on the ground through their farthest-reaching explorations. In the first 30 years of the band’s existence, ...

Bruno Mars, Jill Scott and Mandy, Indiana have new albums on the way, and a frantic tune from an anime film is No. 1 in Japan. By Jon Pareles Even in its early weeks, 2026 is revving up fast. The ...