Five years ago today, the country music world lost a celebrated songwriter and unsung hero of the Outlaw movement.
What Sam Sussman, author of ‘Boy from the North Country,’ hears in the catalog of the enigmatic singer-songwriter.
This house music, it's gonna set you free. In 2025 house music is such a globally popular and varied genre that its origins in early 1980s Chicago warehouses seem improbable. But the myth of house ...
15 years and a couple of owners since we launched it, we’ve now reached the 10th season of A.V. Undercover. Our beloved music series has undergone a few transformations, but this year, we once again ...
Before he was an outlaw-country pioneer and a movie star, and after he was a Rhodes scholar and a helicopter pilot for the U.S. Army, the jarringly handsome young man was a janitor in Nashville, for ...
Dance halls, honky-tonks, speakeasies, jazz clubs, ballrooms, rock 'n' roll clubs, discotheques, raves, nightclubs and EDM festivals have different names, but they all have continued to attract music ...
The hit songwriting duo he and Tommy Boyce formed in the 1960s was best known for the unexpectedly popular tunes of a made-for-TV band. By Alex Traub Bobby Hart, who alongside his best friend, Tommy ...
No one wants their time wasted, including by music. But the rise of TikTok-optimized tracks less than two minutes long might be going too far. The best long songs are an antidote to that—a way of ...
No offense to the Bobby Rydell, Cozy Morley, and Al Alberts fans, but we need a new, updated song about Cape May County. (Bobby Rydell did the song, "Wildwood Days", while both Morley and Alberts have ...
One of the original teen idols of the early '60s, whose popularity waned with the arrival of the Beatles. Johnny Tillotson, who has died aged 86, was a singer best known for his worldwide hit Poetry ...
For quite a while now, I've been known as Bob. But back in the 1950s and early '60s, I was Bobby. And you know how little kids go through a period where they think the whole world revolves around them ...