Tom Petty thought he was just making another solo album. Instead he ended up performing open-heart surgery on himself, ...

Today in Music History for Dec. 5: In 1828, a Harmonic Society was formed in Lunenburg, N.S., by 24 men who met every week to sing church music. The society was one of the earliest musical ...

Kurt Cobain struggled with Smells Like Teen Spirit, the Nirvana anthem that grew into their greatest and most defining song.

These four country songs from 1992 are all really good songs, even though most people have already forgotten about them.

We aren’t really sure why Christmas music is so controversial. Maybe it is its unrelenting ubiquity from Thanksgiving through the end of the year. It could be some of the overplayed, hideous songs ...

The songwriter, two-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer riffed on “Soul Man,” “Green Onions” and “(Sittin’ on) ...

Presenting: 15 of the highest-performing songs in music history. "Bohemian Rhapsody" isn't just a song; it's a journey ...

These tracks didn’t just top the Billboard Hot 100—they stayed there, breaking records and setting new standards for success.

On this day, November 28, 1992, one of the most successful singles of all time started its dominant No. 1 run on the Billboard Hot 100.

In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk, pop punk, emo, hardcore, post-hardcore, ska-punk, and more, including and often especially the bands and albums and subgenres that ...

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 ...