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She was up for Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Music Video, and Best Pop ...

In just one short week since “Wicked” became available to watch (and singalong with) at home, the digital edition of the smash-hit musical (the highest-grossing Broadway adaptation in global box ...

56. New Edition – I’m Still In Love Having perfected the blueprint for early 90s R&B songs, New Edition proved they were no longer just a fresh-faced boy band and were all grown up with “I ...

Prompted by the success of The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, it divided into two ... Psychedelic Shack (1970) featured one song that didn’t use Melvin Franklin’s wonderful ...

The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, a new book from the journalist Liz Pelly, the playlist is the ...

Did you know that Eddie Van Halen quietly and cheaply wrote and played the guitar solo for Michael Jackon’s “Beat It ... of his participation in the song that garnered Michael Jackon ...

The backstory of Glinda the (Not-So) Good Witch and Elphaba the (Not-So) Wicked Witch of the West certainly makes us all look at our childhood classic fave The Wizard of Oz (1939) a little ...

The Bright Eyes frontman talks about the making of the band's latest album, Five Dice, All Threes, and Bright Eyes performs ...

Garth Hudson, a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist best known for his distinctive organ and saxophone work with the Band, and who in ... Genetic Method”). The song — especially the extended ...

But for the finale, the band shuts them up with “Ballad of a Thin Man.” Hudson goes totally off the rails, answering Dylan line for line, bringing all the song’s nightmares to life.