The history of popular music can be measured in decades, genres, and chart positions. But the real milestones are the albums that shattered expectations and rewrote the rules for everyone who came ...

Photo provided Byron Cartwright has a new book about 100 years of Columbus’ musical history entitled “Amazing Sounds in a Midwestern Town: Columbus, Indiana: Small City with a Big Musical Heritage.” ...

One-hit wonders catapult to fame and then burn out fast. That’s the nature of being a one-hit wonder, unfortunately. However, some solitary hitmakers managed to make serious musical history during ...

Larry Magid was instrumental in Philly's 1985 Live Aid benefit concert and is the editor of "The Philadelphia Music Book: Sounds Of A City." ...

Editor's Note: This story was updated on June 20 to reflect additional reporting on Batiste's performance at the MLB at Rickwood Field game. On a warm spring evening in Birmingham, Alabama, “Sunday ...

The classic Christmas tune was first composed as a poem, and it was set to music for the first time in the winter of 1818 Stereo demonstrations and colorful ads sold customers on the two-channel sound ...

The Indiana Music History Project will release 50 completed video interviews with influential figures in Indiana music.

Monumental days in history, there are loads of them. Though, that doesn’t make them any less important or significant, as the events of those days created a ripple effect that altered the timeline we ...

The Georgia Music Collections exhibit is made up of artifacts and interactive elements dedicated to some of the most iconic artists in music history. It's located inside Akins Ford Arena, the ...

Facing a budget shortfall for the last production of his Shadow Theatre Company’s sixth season, artistic director Jeffrey Nickelson decided to make a virtue of necessity. He ditched expensive plans to ...

The coastal California city has spent decades providing drums, guitars, and vinyl for music’s biggest names. In any major music mecca, you’ll find a past littered with historic venues, hometown heroes ...