Colin Morris conducted a study for the online magazine The Pudding in which he found that the repetitiveness of songs on the Billboard Hot 100 had steadily increased between the chart’s inception in ...

For years, David Rowell has been asking "Do we even want new music anymore?" He's found out the terrible answer.

They stripped his sound down to the basics. Then they made 1986′s “King of America.” Elvis Costello had screwed up.

A couple of months ahead of the premiere of “Matlock” on CBS, I went back and revisited episodes of the original legal drama starring Andy Griffith. It ran from 1986 to 1995 and its case-of-the-week ...

Continuing the two-year-long Halloween playlist, here are six more songs to keep your Halloween frightfully fun.

The Chameleons' acclaimed third album, 'Strange Times', was a foundational record that Oasis's future guitarist listened to for many years.

From "Mr. Blue Sky" to "Evil Woman" and "Telephone Line," these are the 30 best ELO songs as Jeff Lynne's farewell tour ...

On Sept. 23, more than half a century after co-founding Electric Light Orchestra in Birmingham, England, lead singer Jeff Lynne took the stage to thunderous applause at TD Garden in Boston. The ...

Pixies, an alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, released their ninth studio album, “The Night the Zombies Came.” This album comes just in time ...

The Muny has just announced its 107th season, which is set to include four musicals that have never been produced onstage in ...

Today, you'll hear a live mini-concert recorded exclusively for World Cafe featuring the current Pixies lineup: singer ...

Morrissey couldn’t be that serious when he sang, “Burn down the disco, hang the DJ…” in The Smiths’ 1986 hit single “Panic” — though, apparently, it was “because the music that they constantly play / ...