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 ...

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 ...