The singer-songwriter, now age 40, is a thousand miles, emotionally and artistically, from where she was when she wrote her piano pop song “A Thousand Miles” as a teenage ballet student. And while...

When MTV premiered almost 40 years ago, British ska band Madness were early stars of the fledgling network – the opening “don’t watch that, watch this!” command of their 1979...

The Beatle chats with me about his new EP, Zoom In, and reveals his favorite drumming moments of his career....

The soft rock/soul/pop legends looks bck on how Hall & Oates made one of the first viral music videos.. even if it took decades for the bonkers “She’s Gone” to...

Vice’s The Story of Thong Song is a deep dive, so to speak, into the history of SisQó’s biggest hit single. We learn that the instrumental bed was inspired by...

Long before iPhone-addicted Gen Z kids and millennials were documenting every moment of their lives on TikTok and Instagram, former child star Soleil Moon Frye was obsessively chronicling her post-Punky...

Blige is known for throwing herself into her musical performances, often exorcising her demons through her intensely personal lyrics that chronicle her experiences with depression, addiction, heartbreak, and abuse; this...

Thirty-five years ago, Janet Jackson unleashed Control, one of the most important pop albums of the ‘80s, or really of any decade. The album not only served as her her...

The Jane’s Addiction/Porno for Pyros/Lollapalooza pioneer, who’s been happily married to Etty Lau Farrell for nearly 20 years and is the father of two musically inclined teen boys, tells me...

In 2009, Adam Schlesinger from Fountains of Wayne, James Iha of the Smashing Pumpkins, Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick, and Taylor Hanson founded the supergroup Tinted Windows — and...