Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.

After two epic, extraordinarily brave, principled art-and-politics albums against the tyranny of the Covid lockdowns and the spineless betrayals by pop-music culture (Latest Record Project, Vol. 1 and ...

“A self-absorbed descent into Covid lunacy” one critic opined. Well, we’ve all been there, dear, but here we are now, out on the other side, blinking into the blinding lights of incendiary wars, ...

My heart was beating on the hillside/Near Belvedere and Tiburon/I need to take you back, back down to ‘Frisco,” sings Van ...

Through a catalog of classic albums, including Moondance, Astral Weeks, and Tupelo Honey, and a summer of love hit, “Brown Eyed Girl,” along with penetrating songs “Domino,” “Have I Told You Lately ...

When you're describing Hollywood, ``originality'' is not the first word that comes to mind. Let's see ... there's ``amoral,'' ``money-grubbing,'' ``self-involved,'' ``vain,'' ``vindictive,'' ``crass,' ...

Ed Sheeran spent another day in court attempting to convince non-musicians that “Thinking Out Loud” didn’t rip off Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.” On Monday, the singer whipped out his guitar once ...

Rock ‘n’ roll history includes a long and colorful tradition of contractual obligation albums, one that’s brought us a handful of unintentional classics as well as a number of records that are so bad ...