Counterculture didn’t arise out of nowhere. It wasn’t thrust into place by Elvis Presley’s hips, Chuck Berry’s duck walking, or Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s guitar.

Pop is still the leading genre around the world. Global music charts are dominated by pop music from the US and UK, but increasingly, reggaeton is joining in.

After wreaking havoc and dishing out dissonance since 1981 — evolving from its early synth-pop dance roots into the ...

Al Clausen, the Emmy-winning composer who provided the music for “The Simpsons” for 27 years, has died at age 84 ...

Since launching in 2000, All Songs Considered has been NPR's flagship program for music discovery, artist interviews and conversations with friends and fellow music lovers about the really big ...

Employed To Serve guitarist Sammy Urwin has called Into The Void by Black Sabbath “one of the best riffs of all time”.Talking ...

A weekly ranking of the most popular songs in Japan combining physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, YouTube and GYAO! video views and karaoke data, compiled by Billboard Japan.

Over the course of five years, Al-Hadra managed to reach a varied audience by collaborating with a hand-full of different music troupes. “We experimented with the Four Quartets troupe ...

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Provision allows US to impose additional taxes on entities from countries that it says impose unfair taxes on US firms.

Eid al-Adha is celebrated on the third day of Hajj. Here’s how to say ‘Eid Mubarak’ in different languages.