I'm not really exaggerating when I say that music utterly changed sixty years ago. The one-two punch of "Blonde on Blonde" ...

Music history is dotted with records that actually made it out, but the shadow history underneath it is just as compelling. Across rock, pop, soul, and beyond, there's a shadow history of records that ...

Just because bands and musicians are one-hit wonders, doesn’t mean that can’t leave an important mark on pop music history. These four artists shined bright and fizzled out pretty quickly, but their ...

Today marks a milestone in pop music history. Forty years ago, on January 23, 1985, Madonna released "Material Girl," the second single from her groundbreaking album Like a Virgin. The song, with its ...

Introduction. They never even knew. What is a popular music genre? ; Music/Identification ; Charting popularity -- Foreign music and the emergence of phonography. Sound recording and new modes of the ...

In a 1998 interview in the New York Times, David Bowie remarked on the prevalence of British musicians who went to art school: You know, 25 years ago there were a whole crop of us that tried to drag ...

With her explosive emergence in the late '00s, Gaga raised the bar for all facets of pop superstardom, while her continued evolution has kept her vital into the 2020s. By Jason Lipshutz Co-Chief ...