Someone had the bright idea to first remind the audience of the AMAs' considerable history before relaunching the show. By Paul Grein Music has gone through a lot of changes since the American Music ...

What is an “American song”? Simply defining this term raises a whole bunch of questions. Is an “American song” one that is about America? Is it one that played a role in American history, or one that ...

The so-called Brill Building era of American popular music—which can be conveniently traced from Elvis’s entrance into the Army in early 1958 until Beatlemania’s arrival from across the pond in early ...

There’s immense variety in popular music careers, even beyond the extremes of one-hit wonders and the long-haulers touring stadiums into their dotage. There are those who embody a specific era, ...