Van Halen's cover of "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks helped rocket them to stardom, and the story behind how it came to be ...

Harry Styles is getting attention again, this time for a dance-heavy music video that fans are calling one of his most memorable yet - and now, he's revealing the meaning behind the hit track. On ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “She dragged me into her tent, and this was the middle of the afternoon, and the deed was done,” the rocker, now 81, said. “I was ...

The Kinks released "You Really Got Me," which put power chords on the map, and has a popular myth involving Led Zeppelin ...

Fifty-three years ago today, Tanya Tucker topped the country chart for the first time with a heartbreaking ballad.

The New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli met with Taylor Swift in Los Angeles to talk about the craft of songwriting. The New York Times Magazine polled more than 250 music insiders and gathered six ...

If you ask Bette Midler, her whole career has been about spreading enough joy to distract from “the grimness of everyday life.” The World War II-era song in question, “All You Fascists,” released in ...

NSAI Executive Director Bart Herbison sits down with the songwriter who helped Adele make "Someone Like You" into a hit.

Swift previously reached out to Elizabeth Taylor's estate for permission to release the tune Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty In a new interview with The New York Times Magazine, Taylor Swift ...

"Song Sung Blue" has been sold to the public as a true story, but how much of it is real and how much of it is fake? It turns out the film comes pretty close to reality. The movie is based on the ...

How did Stevie Nicks really feel about Lindsey Buckingham back then? She tells all in her song "Long Distance Winner".

Rosanne Cash writes about "Merry Golden Tree," a ballad that traveled from Europe to America’s shores carrying the seeds of folk and country music.