Welcome to the seventh Songs of the Week of 2026. This week Andy Von Pip, Matt the Raven, Scotty Dransfield, and Stephen Humphires helped me decide the list. We considered over 50 songs and narrowed ...

Much of the concern, a recent Atlantic report outlines, is the murkiness around AI training data and exactly what has been ...

As the year reaches its mid-point, we have answers to a question more pressing than what to wear to the cookout or how early ...

While Australian artists are feeling ripped off, the intersection between copyright law and AI makes proving infringements ...

People have been writing songs about women for almost as long as songs have existed — but who are the enigmatic figures behind your favorite hits? China reacts after Trump announces deal to end Iran ...

On Friday (June 12), Keith Urban will take the country music world by storm when he releases his new album, Flow State. Aside from one original song (that's "We Go Back," with Michael McDonald), the ...

Homegrown in Northern California, just east of San Francisco, Bo grew up spoiled with the best weather on the planet. For 17 years, he never knew how good he had it until he moved to Maryland for ...

Country music is all about three chords and the truth. It’s the tagline that has brought billions of fans to the genre over the years. And songwriters know—part of telling it like it is means talking ...

Nick Hakim seems due to really, properly blow up, and a brilliant new album might get him there. The Queens-based musician always pops up in fascinating places — in the past few year's he's had ...

Real Madrid is the most supported soccer club in the world, with fans all over the globe, not just in the Spanish capital. With a record number of Champions League and La Liga titles, plus some of the ...

When people still bought records, record companies sometimes expected musicians to produce as many as three albums a year. This caused many artists to scramble for sources of inspiration lest they ...