On this day in 1977, a tragic plane crash took the lives of Lynyrd Skynyrd's lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve ...

This house music, it's gonna set you free. In 2025 house music is such a globally popular and varied genre that its origins in early 1980s Chicago warehouses seem improbable. But the myth of house ...

The leader of Spanish band Angelslang, Sergio García Fernández, claims the Rolling Stones plagiarised two of his tracks to make 'Living in a Ghost Town', a song released during the pandemic. The case ...

Country women have delivered some truly great music in 2025. This list of the 12 best country songs released by females features several contemporary hitmakers, one absolute legend and a woman who ...

Benny Blanco has been behind some of the biggest tracks of the past 20 years, including Katy Perry's "California Gurls" and Rihanna's "Diamonds" Julien Hekimian/Getty ; Jerod Harris/Getty ; Unique ...

Taylor Swift fans are still debating the meaning behind her new song “Ruin the Friendship” from her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl. Instead, fans were given an emotional and heartfelt ballad ...

FARGO — Lee Brice is making the most of some unexpected circumstances. For a number of reasons, his latest album, tentatively titled, “You Need My Guitar,” has been postponed, so the country singer is ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s flight to the US took a circuitous route in an apparent effort to avoid countries that could enforce an outstanding arrest warrant against him for alleged war ...

Members have come and gone over the years as Old Crow morphed from punky upstarts to middle-aged country music statesmen. The most recent evolution yielded “Paint This Town,” another set of smart, ...

Keith Urban shocked fans this week by changing the lyrics to a song about Nicole Kidman just days before the pair announced they were splitting after 19 years of marriage. Kidman, 58, filed for ...

A Cape Air passenger plane — a Cessna 402 model — approaches Logan Airport in Boston in 2018. (Charles Krupa/AP) Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's daily morning newsletter, WBUR Today. If ...

Elizabeth Taylor was born in England in 1932, but she moved to the United States a few years later. (Her parents were American.) She was known for her beauty and started working as a child actor, most ...