The Velvet Underground's influence on indie, alternative, and punk rock is scattered across decades of iconic recordings.

Music history loves a good redemption story. Some of the most beloved songs ever recorded didn’t start out as hits at all.

Perhaps the greatest musical piece ever written is George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah” with its famous “Hallelujah Chorus.” Handel worked on it from Aug. 22-Sept. 14, 1741, hardly stopping to eat ...

Sixty years ago today, Johnnie Wright was at No. 1 with a song that would become the theme to an iconic film two decades later.

Bryan Adams’ classic Everything I Do topped the Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks, becoming one of the biggest and most unforgettable hits of the 90s.

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...