Elton John's 'Tumbleweed Connection' is a captivating exploration of character-driven storytelling, setting it apart from his later works. Released on October 30, 1970, this album showcases a bold ...

Bob Marley's music is beloved all over the world, and songs like "I Shot the Sheriff" and "No Woman, No Cry" are among his very best.

Music history loves a good redemption story. Some of the most beloved songs ever recorded didn’t start out as hits at all.

My parents had what we call a shotgun wedding. They were just kids doing the best they could’: Stephen Wilson Jr on grief, ...

“Seven Spanish Angels” is one of the most iconic country duets ever recorded, a truly haunting, Gospel-tinged ballad performed by Willie Nelson and Ray Charles in 1984. The song was written by Troy ...

Lily Allen's album "West End Girl," released in the aftermath of her split from David Harbour, details a brutal breakup. It's ...

The lyrics have a desperate narrator with blood on his hands—or maybe dirt, from burying a body— who turns to dodgy backwoods spiritualism for his hoped-for-redemption, on the chance that it will keep ...

Faith-based hip-hop/R&B is becoming the "new mainstream" with breakthroughs from several artists, according to a guest column by Angela M. Jollivette.

Singer-songwriter Sahil Samuel redefines the Naalayak sound with Marammat, an album about repair, resilience, and rediscovering purpose.

Jorga Mesfin, the legendary saxophonist and keyboardist, was a budding jazz musician in college in 1997, exploring the vast universe of music. While in the ...

While there may be no absurdly long standing ovations, nor an endless parade of accused predators and abusers, the New York ...