The biggest names in music have been recognized for their contributions to the industry made throughout the past year ...

Giddens was named a MacArthur Genius Fellow in 2017, and won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for the opera “Omar,” which she cocomposed ...

It's time to celebrate a year of music with the 2025 Grammys. Top nominees include Beyoncé, Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan.

A Chinese traditional music concert enchanted an audience of nearly 800 at the Romanian Athenaeum early this week with melodies portraying the vibran ...

Frankie Avalon- Venus (#46): The original, from 1959, was Avalon's best song, and was recorded in nice stereo. This is an attempt to hop on the disco bandwagon, with some generic disco musicianship.

We get the resistance to streaming. You're paying not to own music, just rent it. And physical media is so much better in so many ways – sound quality, tactility, artwork, a deeper connection with the ...

Yet at Skylark in Pilsen, each visit to its legendary latrines is a significant peek into the past. Rumor has it the bar at 2149 S. Halsted St. is home to the oldest-known urinals in Chicago. And as ...

In many ways, therefore, she laid the groundwork for what would later influence countless movements, mainly 1960s counterculture and beyond, proving that what we now call folk or “protest” music ...

Although most outsiders’ views on folk music tended to be songs that sounded like safe country songs, hearing Guthrie start singing tracks like ‘This Land Is Your Land’ at the height of World War II ...

The Bellingham Folk Festival is entering a new era this year, with original organizer Cayley Schmid handing over the reins to an ad hoc committee of volunteers. The new open-source format seems to ...

The biggest Folk albums of the month (defined in partnership with English Folk Expo) by British and Irish artists, based on sales in the UK of downloads, CDs, vinyl and other formats, plus streams.