Everybody loves the blues in some capacity. This genre of soulful music can be traced back to the 1860s in the Deep South. The origins of the blues started with African-American musicians who created ...

A genre is a category of artistic, musical or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form or content. Music genres such as pop, country, rock and folk are used to categorize songs ...

Music and the frequencies we listen to tend to have a powerful impact on our emotions and mental state. And it’s not only research that proves this. You may have probably experienced the power of ...

Music is an ever-expanding universe, filled with endless sounds and styles that reflect the diversity of cultures, histories, ...

One of the overarching arguments of Elijah Wald’s influential, broad-scale pop music history treatise How the Beatles Destroyed Rock’n’Roll is that the advent of the long-playing record and the ...

Country, rap, and pop are the big three music genres of the 21st century. Frankly, and in regard to commercial success, the genres have monopolized the industry to a massive fault. Though that can of ...

The Grammy-winning artist's new album 'Dreamsicle' releases May 9 Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously appeared on ...

Whether you’re working from home or studying for class, sometimes it’s nice to turn on a little music to help you tune out all the noise around you. It can be easy to get distracted if your partner is ...

Ah, the 1990s, a decade when music didn’t just play in the background; it defined who you were. From cassette tapes and boomboxes to the dawn of MP3s, the 1990s were a golden age of genre-bending ...