Did The Beach Boys secretly help shape Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody? Allegedly, their harmonies and studio magic paved the way.

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Madonna may be the Queen of Pop, but her first love was another genre that shaped her sound and inspired her rise to global ...

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These amazing classic rock songs may have dropped way back in 1976, but I still find myself enjoying them in the 2020s.

Maggie Rose, a leading Nashville singer whose style has broadened far beyond country, talks about her 'Cocoon' EP and dueting ...

There are a lot of things going on in today’s crazy, mixed-up world. We don’t need to enumerate them here, but suffice it to say, it often feels like too much is happening. But what can a person do to ...

Rolling Stone’s list of “The 250 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century So Far” is out, and several K-pop songs made the cut! With the first quarter of the 21st century winding to a close, the American ...

After a decade of flirting with urban and reggaeton music and collaborating with some pretty big names in both genres, the Mexican pop band Reik returned to its pop roots. It was nothing that was ...

The rhythm is gonna get you…a street name at Ocean Drive and 13 th on Miami Beach? That’s right, maybe U2 lives in a neighborhood where the streets have no name, but here in Miami, we do things ...

One of the remarkable aspects of music is witnessing how it evolves and elevates with each passing decade. The 1970s were no different, as the era showcased how musicians could easily blend the sounds ...

The 1980s were a transformative era in pop music. Musicians were moving away from the disco genre of the '70s and decided to innovate with bolder sounds. It was a time in which synthesizers, ...