Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) celebrates two full years on ...

Tshoma Pugh, aka Taco Bops (in glasses), pictured in the late 80s and early 90s with Masta Ace (top), KRS-One (lower left), and MC Lyte. Credit: Raymond Boyd Chicago hip-hop lost a foundational figure ...

Five teenagers were arrested and charged with assaulting Trisha Meili. The city of New York was already seething with racial and socioeconomic tensions in April 1989 when 911 calls began coming in ...

Taylor Swift is taking listeners back to her "1989" era with the release of "1989 (Taylor's Version)" Oct. 27 — and by "1989," we mean 2014, when the album came out. Swift was 24 years old at the time ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A dating app created by a former Chicago radio host is helping people find love this summer. Kendra G was an on-air personality on WGCI for more than 10 years, and she is now the ...

Rats in the front room, roaches in the back Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat I tried to get away but I couldn’t get far ‘Cause the man with the tow truck repossessed my car. It was 1982, and ...

The winds of change were blowing by 1989 (no, not that wind), and it was evident all across the rock music spectrum. Big-haired, sex-obsessed rockers were still clinging to the charts, but they had to ...

In a record-breaking week, the “Taylor’s Version” of the pop star’s 2014 album sold the equivalent of 1,653,000 copies in the United States. By Ben Sisario Exactly nine years ago, Taylor Swift made a ...

Taylor keeps her re-records very close to the originals, but five previously unreleased songs add depth and context to what was then her galactic, career-shifting pop debut. The most striking moments ...

Nine years to the day since the release of Taylor Swift’s “1989,” the singer’s rerecorded version of her blockbuster 2014 album is here: “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” hit streaming services at 9 p.m. PT ...

Like any serious literary work, Taylor Swift leads the new songs on her albums with an introduction — or, in her words, a prologue. With the release of "1989 (Taylor's Version)" Oct. 27, fans were ...