THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT COUNTRY SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED BY ...

Popular music came on blue, while country records were green. Their first blues 45 was Arthur Crudup’s “That’s All Right,” which ran 2:55. Many 45 rpm singles in the 1950s and early 1960s ...

Find out how to fill your music library with tracks you can keep forever. Here are the best places to buy MP3s and FLAC files. Ty Pendlebury has worked at CNET since 2006. He lives in New York ...

It isn’t easy to come up with any decade that was better for music than the 1960s. For someone like Tom Waits, the decade didn’t just signal a moment in time but proved the explosiveness of innovation ...

British guitarist John Sykes, best known for his work with rock bands Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake, has died aged 65 “after a ...

She was visiting as a companion of Diane Hamilton, the heiress to the Guggenheim dynasty who was travelling around Ireland recording folk singers and collecting trad songs. Over three or four ...

But it was the pop songwriters of the 1960s who set it to music. And a few brave TV producers ... For a roughly 13-year period, from the mid-1950s until King's assassination in 1968, pop culture ...

January 17, 2025 • NPR Music's Stephen Thompson welcomes aboard Kara Manning of New York City public radio station WFUV to discuss the best new albums hitting streaming services on Friday, Jan. 17.

The fact that this was a time when all the top guys fought each other makes it a truly special period. There was hardly a compelling match that didn’t get made in the 1950s. Boxing was a major sport ...