Music has this funny way of sticking around longer than we expect. A track that dominated the charts decades ago can suddenly pop back up on your feed, sounding fresh as ever. Sometimes it takes a TV ...

The following chart-hitting songs from the year 1960 have been somewhat forgotten by mainstream audiences today. I think that’s a shame, because these three tracks are some of the most influential ...

There are a lot of songs that you might have no idea were written for, or at least released in conjunction with a movie. Sometimes, those songs end up being more successful than the movie itself, but ...

Music history loves its legends. We hear about Elvis, The Beatles, and rock icons who supposedly invented entire genres. Yet ...

These four country songs were big hits when they came out in 2002, even though hardly anyone remembers them anymore.

SAZ band is a contemporary Rajasthani folk trio from the Langa community that is preserving their musical heritage by ...

This rare "Promotion Only (Not for Sale)" 12" remix of "Like a Prayer" is part of the author's forgotten record collection. Source: Photo by Christopher Bergland We all know from life experience that ...

Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/4238930/4238931" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> In ...

Most people know that George Bernard Shaw was once a music critic, writing for London papers under the name Corno di Bassetto (basset horn, a wind instrument). That he was also an amateur composer was ...