If anyone was destined to get into the music business, it was Randy Newman. His uncles, Alfred, Lionel, and Emil Newman, all made their names as Hollywood composers, racking up a stonking 10 Oscars and…

Back in the 1980s, pop acts didn’t get much bigger than Hall and Oates. With their radio-friendly brand of blue-eyed soul, they dominated the charts, releasing one mega-selling album after the other. Today, they rank…

The title of a song often says a lot about the lyrical or musical content of the song. Colors are a common theme that is used in titles. A color is sometimes used as a…

Skid Row might never have achieved the same level of fame as some of their peers, but that didn’t stop their fusion of hard rock and metal from playing out in millions of mosh pits…

As far as hip hop duos from New York go, Mobb Deep are up there. As we rank all the Mobb Deep studio albums, we will look at the eight albums that the rap duo…

Since its inception, Garbage have barely changed the line up, with Shirley Manson on the vocals, Steve Marker (lead guitarist) Duke Erikson (guitar, keyboard) and Butch Vig on drums and production. The band, which was…

We all go through it. There are days that feel like the never-ending Monday—even worse if it actually lands on a Monday. This is when music can come to the rescue. Music has the power…

Rock stars might spend most of their time touring, but there’s no place like home. Especially, it seems, if that home is the USA, which has provided the subject to more classic rock songs than…

Up until 2010, Yelawolf was an underground rapper from the south with a small but dedicated following. And then he dropped his first major-label release, Trunk Muzik 0-60, and suddenly, the name on everyone’s lips…