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Here are four fascinating tunes featuring backing vocals by Michael Stipe in honor of the R.E.M. frontman’s 66th birthday.

Bob Dylan has written hundreds of songs over his decades-long career, but "Ballad in Plain D" is one he looks back on with ...

Various songs by The Beatles get pretty sad, including the likes of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Ticket to Ride," and "The Long and Winding Road." ...

In the early nineteen-thirties, three young gay men made the scene in bohemian Los Angeles, absorbing influences and shaping one another’s tastes. They staged art shows and concerts; they lectured ...

Rema‘s latest single "Baby (Is It a Crime)" made a lot of noise last November when the Afrobeats star first teased it with its super-recognizable sample of Sade‘s 1985 hit "Is It a Crime." The English ...

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Pirate activist group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped the entirety of Spotify’s music library and plans to release it through torrents. Spotify has around 256 million tracks, and the Anna’s Archive ...

The White House Press Secretary tried to call out First Lady Rama Duwaji for wearing (loaned) $630 boots—and glossed over the ...

Music is subjective. General popularity rarely translates to universal enjoyment. In A Nutshell Sabrina Carpenter’s “Sugar ...

Since hip-hop's inception, the genre has exponentially grown with every single decade, and the 2000s era was no different. Hip-hop saw even more commercial success than before; it succeeded in ...