All the growth in the music business now comes from old songs — how did we get here, and is there a way back? The new music market is actually shrinking. All the growth in the market is coming from ...

The Great Groove Band performs with local kids at the Old Songs Festival of Traditional Music and Dance at Altamont Fairgrounds. A crowd enjoys a concert at Old Songs Festival of Traditional Music and ...

John McCutcheon, seen here playing hammered dulcimer and flanked by some of the 15 or so other instruments he plays, has been called the Renaissance man of folk music. He will be making a return ...

Artificial intelligence can generate new songs and even artists, but it can also be used to raid hits of the past for new earnings potential. AI is being used already to separate elements -- called ...

In the past few months, entire (or almost entire) catalogs from musicians like Bob Dylan, Whitney Houston, The Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, ZZ Top, and about a dozen more have sold from ...

When it came time to commission a new pop song for her bittersweet romance Materialists, Celine Song had a simple guideline for prospective songwriters: Make it like John Prine’s “In Spite of ...

After peeling back the layers of alleged "racist undertones" in Jason Aldean's new song, an influencer has dissected Toby Keith's song "Beer For My Horses" in the same way. Destinee Stark took a look ...

You know the moment, when you’re at a party, and the playlist humming in the background suddenly plays that song. Everyone perks up. Phones pause mid-scroll, and the conversation stalls. Some songs ...

The Planet Money team got a cassette tape in the mail with a 47-year-old song about a timely topic: inflation. The other day, NPR's Planet Money podcast team got a cassette in the mail. A cassette?

KISS fans are celebrating the long-awaited release of ”Mistake.” The 50-year-old song, written by founding member Paul Stanley, is included on the band’s newly released Dressed to Kill 50th ...

Welcome to music in 2025. KATSEYE has been crowned TikTok’s Global Artist of the Year 2025, cementing their status as the biggest band on the platform and one of the most influential pop acts in the ...