Kate Hudson on growing up in an acting dynasty, her own rock’n’roll ambitions — and why she paused Botox, gained weight and ...

American Pie’ is a death song, really,” says Don McLean today. “Friends of mine who’d died in Vietnam were being brought back ...

On this day in 1964, the Rolling Stones recorded a cover of the Buddy Holly song "Not Fade Away," their first U.S. single.

In 1994, alternative bands still dominated rock music, though the word “alternative,” as with “grunge,” had long lost any ...

Bruce Springsteen released 'Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ', Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits went Gold, The Wiz opened at the ...

The famous Buddy Holly crosswalk in the singer's hometown of Lubbock will remain up for at least a couple more months. Lubbock city officials tell Chron they plan to remove the crosswalk art at some ...

The Acacia Strain – You Are Safe From God Here (Rise) For me, the best death metal feels like a location, a literal spatial world made accessible through music. There’s something about Ego Dissolution ...

A picture is worth a 1,000 words, but how many should an album cover be worth? The several artists, designers, and photographers we spoke to behind some of 2025's best album covers can't say for ...

90 tracks! Five hours! Remix the year in pop however you wish. By Lindsay Zoladz The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

As the year comes to an end, we are wading deep into list season. Now that we’ve talked about the best albums, songs, debuts, and EPs of 2025, it’s time to get even more granular and pay tribute to a ...

If 2024 was the year of the situationship album (and, yes, there are still plenty that dropped thereafter), then 2025 was the year we danced through the fire. The hypnotic, high-tempo momentum of this ...

Have you noticed that guitars are back? I’m being a little facetious, but rock and even punk has has been steadily climbing its way back to the mainstream and we felt that more this year than we have ...