But we never kidded ourselves, nor intended to kid you, that we could succeed in definitively choosing the 40 greatest, most important, creative, and successful music makers in the last 40 years. Many ...

MTV launched 40 years ago on Aug. 1, 1981, with The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star.” The “Music Television” network is better known today for its reality shows, like “Teen Mom” and “The Real ...

Mike Diamond, Adam Horovitz and Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys (Photo by Chris Polk/FilmMagic) Music videos are the perfect bastard child of art and commerce, even more than pop music itself. A ...

Nearly every history of Top 40 launches from an anecdote about how radio station manager Todd Storz came up with the idea sometime between World War II and the early 1950s, watching with friends in a ...

The British pop music duo of Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin just released 'Glorious,' a career-spanning hits collection Alma Rosaz In the career of the legendary British pop act Bananarama, the ...

Sometimes it’s the view—you’re at Denver’s Red Rocks, your eyes darting back and forth from the band to the landscape, and the music seems changed by the surrounding beauty. Sometimes it’s the history ...

I t’s midday at the dawn of the 21st century — Wednesday, June 18, 2003 — in New York City’s Flatiron District, the gateway between uptown wealth and downtown cool. We’re on the west side of Madison ...

Barrett Kalellis, who founded multiple Michigan music ensembles, receives grand prize for "The Hill of Vision" at age 81.

“If you’re an artist and you’re signed to a major label, you want to be on the radio, especially if you’re popular,” Kanye West told Power 105.1’s Charlamagne tha God in May. West has enjoyed the ...

On March 27, 2021, roughly one year into the pandemic, “Saturday Night Live” opened with a cringey skit that mocked pandemic-era spring breakers as lusty, dead-eyed degenerates who had remorselessly ...

The West Coast legend has dropped off his first new solo track of 2025. By Mackenzie Cummings-Grady E-40 is back with his first solo single since 2023, and Billboard has the exclusive premiere of his ...

If Drake is hip-hop's Batman, Noah "40" Shebib is Alfred. He may seem like an unassuming member of the OVO camp, but in actuality, he's one of the creative geniuses that helps keep the collective ...