By now, I’m sure you’ve seen the viral video of the Queen of Soul singing for the Obamas and songwriter Carole King at the Kennedy Center...

This year, traditional songwriting went head-to-head with algorithm-based formulas, leaving our brains confused about what makes a good...

This year, traditional songwriting went head-to-head with algorithm-based formulas, leaving our brains confused about what makes a good...

THIS Christmas, booksellers are featuring several memoirs by rock musicians in their product queues. The authors are not all household...

THIS Christmas, booksellers are featuring several memoirs by rock musicians in their product queues. The authors are not all household...

A woman checks my ID at ATL TSA and hands me my driver’s license. “Make it a good one,” she says. I walk to T Gates and fill my water...

At Carnegie Hall this past Tuesday night, Miley Cyrus joined U2’s Bono and The Edge, Hozier and Jessie J for a World AIDS Day event...

At Carnegie Hall this past Tuesday night, Miley Cyrus joined U2’s Bono and The Edge, Hozier and Jessie J for a World AIDS Day event...

Every great songwriter has a “bird on the shoulder” moment now and then. Glen Hansard says the melody of the lead track from his new...

LAST September U2 released its 13th album, “Songs of Innocence.” Critics lauded the collection’s lush ballads and rhythmically angular...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST Many of today’s top touring artists, including Taylor Swift, One Direction, the Rolling Stones,...

On July 13, 1985, Africa became a brand. The image of a starving Ethiopian girl named Birhan Woldu flickered across TV screens as Paul...

After seeing the new movie, Love & Mercy, we’ll never hear The Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows” the same way again. During a scene in which...

After seeing the new movie, Love & Mercy, we’ll never hear The Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows” the same way again. During a scene in which...

PASTE MAGAZINE Twenty years ago this spring, Oasis holed up in a recording studio in Wales to create the defining album of the Britpop...

For the past few years, my year-end music column has focused almost exclusively on lists of singles, from which I’ve tried my darndest to...

Emmanuel Jal’s story is an inspiring personal journey of survival: During the second Sudanese civil war in the 1980s, his mother was...

One of the driving forces behind the original Band Aid recording looks back 30 years. THREE decades before One Direction, Ellie Goulding...

A new documentary called Soul Boys of the Western World follows the British band Spandau Ballet from its New Romantic beginnings in...

“NOSTALGIA”, the latest album from Annie Lennox, the British singer-songwriter, recalls an era of smoky clubs and street-corner swing....