Dolly Parton is celebrating a milestone birthday: her 80th. In celebration, The Tennessean has compiled a playlist of her ...

Buy the ticket, take the ride, wrote Hunter S. Thompson of life, which the US writer believed should be lived at full ...

"Purple Rain," arguably one of Prince's most iconic songs, has re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart more than four decades ...

“A very naïve, happy type of pop song,” said The Cure’s dependably sarcastic guitarist and vocalist Robert Smith of the ...

Daily Dirt for Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026 I guarantee you there will be a comment at the bottom from Muddy River czar J. Robert ...

Prince's 'Purple Rain' leads the surge in Spotify streaming for the 'Stranger Things' finale songs in the last episode of ...

Securing the rights to use a song in film or TV is a challenging and expensive task — and the more iconic the song, the more challenging and expensive the clearance is likely to be. So when two of ...

The pair credited the success of Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" after season 4 with helping their bid. "The only thing that was harder rights-wise was getting Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' for the ...

Over the course of its five-season run, Stranger Things repeatedly found ways to resurrect Eighties culture, perhaps no more potently than through its many memorable needle drops. And the show’s ...

Now royal expert Jennie Bond claimed that the King has found a “powerful shield” to protect the institution against his ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

Humanity is driven at a biological level by two fundamental imperatives: avoid death and pursue lovin’. That’s why 90% of our art is about the latter, as the former is a bit of a bummer. However, some ...