From the soulful horns of highlife to the percussive zeal of fuji, Nigeria’s foundational genres are not just relics of the past; they are ...

In his latest Guitar World column, the blues powerhouse channels Slowhand (and uses his own track Threw Me to the Wolves) for ...

We are Imarhan from the desert,” guitarist and primary lead singer Iyad Moussa Ben Abderrahmane announces during the early ...

After a few years of trial and error, Brooke and Nick blended their music into a folk-americana style. The couple has ...

We tend to think of music as completely cultural — something we learn to love and understand through lullabies, radio hits, and Spotify playlists. But new research suggests that at least one part of ...

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” hit 2.4 billion Spotify streams in December 2024. On Christmas Eve alone, it pulled 24.86 million streams. That’s the second-biggest single-day streaming record in ...

This article originally appeared in Issue 7 of Crawdaddy in December, 1966. A major source of innovation in any art is external influences, influences derived from widespread, eclectic origins outside ...

Hüsker Dü: The Miracle Year documents a band on the brink of jumping from the independent label SST to signing with major label Warner. By 1985, Hüsker Dü had already started bending hardcore into ...

Ugarit Royal Palace archives space. Credit: Dosseman / CC BY-SA 4.0 A recently analyzed ancient hymn has revealed strong musical ties between cultures separated by thousands of miles and centuries of ...