The Top 250 American Songs don't merely represent the best popular music of the rock 'n' roll era; they also tell the story of American music over the past 70-plus years. In the list below, selected ...

In the mid-80s, new wave, the subgenre that combined fun pop hooks with synth sounds, took over the charts. Here are a few songs from this era that we still blast today. When “Take On Me” was merely a ...

Last November, a pair of Olympic-bound figure skaters performed in a competition to a song with lyrics that sounded oddly familiar. “Every night we smash a Mercedes-Benz,” the singer began. It was one ...

It was nearly impossible to predict what music in the 80s was going to be like at the start of the decade. Still, there were some clues that music was about to undergo a massive shift, especially in ...

CATSKILL, N.Y. (NEWS10)– The Music in the Park concert series is set to return next week in Catskill. The free concerts will take place each Thursday at Dutchman’s Landing from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. All ...

Jeff Cornell is a veteran music and entertainment writer, who has contributed to Variety, Billboard, Loudwire, The Hollywood Reporter, and MTV. Metallica is one of the most highly regarded and ...

For more than a century, pianists and music teachers have argued over whether a performer’s touch can actually change the tone color of a piano note — and now scientists say the answer is yes. Using a ...

In the 1980s, a lot of metal bands were content to sing about sex, drugs, partying and banging your head senseless — but not all of them, as you'll see in the following list of 11 '80s metal songs ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. Payam ...

Learning to play the piano has long been associated with rigid lessons, endless scales, and strict adherence to classical repertoire. Rarely has it been considered fun. But now, Payam Khastkhodaei ...

Darius Partovi started taking classical piano lessons when he was 7, but he soon grew restless and gave them up. It wasn’t until COVID-19 shut down schools that he returned to his keyboard out of ...