Songwriters Matraca Berg and Alice Randall sat down recently with Nashville Songwriters Association International 's Bart Herbison to discuss the Story Behind the Song "XXX's and OOO's (An American ...

Peter A. Berry Last October, an otherwise nondescript piece of street code became Skrilla’s ticket to singer Natasha Bedingfield’s concert. Adorned in what he calls a “soul-snatching” mask, the ...

Get ready to clear your throat and warm up those vocal cords! Join us as we count down the iconic songs that everyone knows by heart, from stadium anthems to pop classics. Whether at karaoke, in your ...

Great question! Below, we wanted to explore three songs from that first year of the new era. We wanted to highlight three classic rock songs from 1980 worth both remembering and even performing ...

Country music has long been billed as three chords and the truth. And while those three chords have evolved over the years, the “truth” often gets told using many of the same familiar words. Most of ...

The end of the 1960s was a remarkable time. The decade had seen so much transition. From a musical perspective, that meant beginning the era with simple, lo-fi rock music and ending it with some of ...

Ah, the 1970s—a decade of bell-bottoms, disco balls, and some of the catchiest songs that still echo through our minds today. Whether you were grooving in the backseat of your parents’ car or belting ...

On Christmas Day, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson belted out Neil Diamond songs in Song Sung Blue. She and Hugh Jackman portray the true story of a married couple who perform in a tribute band of the ...

Slang, a term for the informal, non-standard lingo used in social settings, doesn't originate in a vacuum. The invented words we casually throw around come from the culture around us, particularly the ...