Before the "Dancing in the Dark" video we all know, Bruce Springsteen made another failed attempt at the video with director of photography Daniel Pearl.

On today's date in 1975, Jackie Wilson was performing in New Jersey. While singing "Lonely Teardrops," Wilson had a heart attack and went into a coma.

Joshua Redman is paying tribute to the musician he considers his greatest influence with ‘If Ever You Would Leave Us (We Play for Rollins),’ an album created in the weeks immediately following the death of Sonny Rollins. Arriving November 20 through Blue Note Records, Redman’s third album for the label features 11 selections from Rollins’ […]

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Kris Kristofferson got his big break with "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down," which may be the greatest song ever written about loneliness.

The "empty garden" of Elton John's tribute to John Lennon originated from the location where the two had once performed together.

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Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP

One of the great albums for finding company in middle-of-the-night anxiety is Frank Sinatra's "In the Wee Small Hours."

On September 15, 1963, racists exploded a bomb at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, as recounted in a Spike Lee film and a Joan Baez song.

Margo Price's new EP "Days of Unrest" includes several timely protest songs, including Woody Guthrie's "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)."

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In "What Do You Do When You're Lonesome," author Jonathan Berstein recounts the life, music, and struggles of singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle who died in 2020 at the age of 38.

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Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...

In "What Do You Do When You're Lonesome," author Jonathan Berstein recounts the life, music, and struggles of singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle who died in 2020 at the age of 38.

In 1957, a young Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline appeared on "Tex Ritter's Ranch Party."

Justin Townes Earle wrote a rare love song that praises a woman for driving a fuel-efficient car, "Champagne Corolla."

Van Morrison's greatest work transformed exile, memory and spiritual longing into some of the most mysterious music ever recorded

Johnny Cash, who passed away in September 2003, recorded a moving duet with his daughter Rosanne Cash on "September When It Comes."

If the latest "Looney Tunes" film doesn't get the support it deserves, Warner Bros. wins.

23-hour solitary confinement. 115-degree heat. Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the decades he spent in Louisiana’s Angola prison — and how, even after being released, he still isn’t truly free.

Gary of Gary Lewis & the Playboys was the son of Jerry Lewis, and the two appeared together as hosts of an episode of Hullabaloo.

From lunchboxes to No. 2 pencils, the prices are skyrocketing. Here's how much

The 2019 film "The Last Full Measure" failed to be a box office hit, but if you are looking for a lesser known film about the after effects of the Vietnam War featuring some of America's great actors,...

Dolly Parton, country music legend, dead at 80.

Dolly Parton, the country music icon, has died at 80. The country singer had been open about facing health problems in the last year of her life.

People-watchers, trainspotters and A.O. Scott agree: Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” is one of the shortest great poems in English.

Those that remember the American Bicentennial in 1976 recall a national celebration that contrasts sharply with the America of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.

A portrait of legendary singer Eva Cassidy from the perspective of her parents, family and friends.

Barbara Kopple’s documentary follows a generation of starlets, moguls, and other tanned partygoers who have no idea what tragedies and class anxieties lie in store.

Prosecutors call psychologists to the stand in the Lindsay Clancy trial; more audio is played of Duane "Keffe D" Davis in the Tupac murder trial; opening statements in Lil Durk murder-for-hire trial.

A passionately opinionated veteran of Creem and Rolling Stone, he was part of a generation of writers who influenced how the world saw the golden age of rock.

The 2019 film "The Last Full Measure" failed to be a box office hit, but if you are looking for a lesser known film about the after effects of the Vietnam War featuring some of America's great actors,...