In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative ...

In 1981, a legendary British rock band was born in London and eventually became one of the best supergroups ever formed. Asia ...

The '80s acts on this list only made it into the Top 40 once, but we're still swooning over the unforgettable love songs that ...

Not all great tunes do well on the pop charts. These four standout songs from 1980 didn't do much damage at all in the Top ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Grammy-winning musician Mya about her new album "Retrospect." The record is an ode the funk, soul and R&B music she heard in her childhood.

I’m turning 50 this year. In this series, I’ll talk about 50 songs that serve as signposts for my life. These songs not only ...

Arkansas Poet Laureate Suzanne Underwood Rhodes and Wesley Allen and the Modern August are featured guests for a free event ...

Barry Walters discusses new book 'Mighty Real,' which offers a history of LGBTQ+ music from 1969 to 2000. We also pay a visit ...

The song's success quickly followed. On September 8, 1984, "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" debuted in the U.S. Billboard Hot ...

Michael Jackson is finally getting the music biopic treatment this week with Michael, starring the late pop icon’s nephew, Jaafar Jackson — Jermaine Jackson’s son — in the title role. Playing in ...

It is 1984, and Madonna is coming out of a car radio with a snare hit that lands like a dare. The production on Like a Virgin was engineered to sound new, slightly confrontational, and impossible to ...