War is hell, and great songs like "Gimme Shelter" and "Alice's Restaurant" bring home that message more successfully than the rest.

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Move over, Halloween, because Willie Nelson is headed straight for Christmas! The country music outlaw, 92, just released a ...

Joni Mitchell certainly had the critical acclaim. But she didn't manage a big radio hit until she literally wrote a radio ...

Welcome to the 37th Songs of the Week of 2025. This week Andy Von Pip, Matt the Raven, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen ...

From what I’ve seen online, The Life of a Showgirl seems to be a polarizing album. Millions of Swifties have ranted and raved ...

Few country rock tunes have stood the test of time quite like America’s 1972 hit song, “A Horse With No Name”. I can only imagine what it was like to drive down the highway somewhere in the great ...

What are the best opening songs from some of the 1990s biggest rock albums? Here we've delved into some of the biggest albums of the decade, taken a closer look at the songs that kicked off the record ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

To anyone at all familiar with The Format’s catalog, it’s only so surprising that the indie-pop duo’s first full-band performance in nearly two decades sold out a venue as massive as Veterans Memorial ...

Dance halls, honky-tonks, speakeasies, jazz clubs, ballrooms, rock 'n' roll clubs, discotheques, raves, nightclubs and EDM festivals have different names, but they all have continued to attract music ...

No one wants their time wasted, including by music. But the rise of TikTok-optimized tracks less than two minutes long might be going too far. The best long songs are an antidote to that—a way of ...