The Music Channel teaches us about the industry, the instruments and the genres. These articles explain why music is such an important fabric of our collective soul.
Bach was and is a towering figure in musical history, but what is it that makes him so great?
Thanks to its viral YouTube video, the addictive kid's song is making waves on the music charts. Surprisingly, it's not an isolated phenomenon.
K-pop phenoms BTS beat out several political figures — and even our own planet — to take first place in Time magazine's 2018 online poll for person of the year. How did they pull it off?
You paid how much for that Taylor Swift concert? Why are musicians charging so much for live shows these days?
Guitar gods like Les Paul are known for playing the same instrument throughout their career. Here we feature 10 famous guitars and the musicians who loved them.
Take a chance on our ABBA quiz and find out how much you know about the 70s Swedish supergroup!
How this relatively small Southern city beat out the others to become 'Music City U.S.A.'?
Is she a nun? A jilted lover? We know you're dying to find out.
Start studying up for the streaming wars, music lovers.
During the early 1960s, many songs featuring tragic teen deaths, usually in car crashes, became huge hits. What was behind this morbid craze?
Billions of dollars' worth of CDs and digital downloads are sold each year and the Grammy Awards recognize the people who create all this music. How are winners picked and who have been some of the most controversial?
Soprano Audrey Luna sings an A over high C, the highest note ever achieved onstage at the Metropolitan Opera.
Hot on the heels of the vinyl revival comes a mini-boom for cassette sales. But who's really buying them?
Will subscription music services – and the unlikely comeback of vinyl – save the music album from extinction?
The renowned string quartet will improvise live music to accompany 'space sounds' created by sonification of the total solar eclipse.
A computer programmer used data analysis to crunch the numbers for six decades of pop music's hottest hits.
Where else can you find an instrument that can be played with a mallet, a violin bow or a hair comb?
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery by learning more about this reggae superstar.
Nearly four decades after the Village People anthem hit the discos, the song's namesake still isn't really ready to fully embrace it.
When the Clash started working on their third album, they had no idea it would be so influential.
Which other famous rock star inspired the Lizard King's persona?
The copyright infringement lawsuits didn't kill off sampling. Musicians just figured out how to hide it better so artists often can't tell they're being sampled.
Not everyone agrees that as you age, you only want to hear the oldies.
Whether you love cheery pop tunes or melodramatic ballads has a lot to do with your age and gender, right? Actually, your musical taste depends more on your personality.
Ludovico Einaudi's 'Elegy for the Arctic' is part of a Greenpeace campaign to draw attention to the region's rapidly melting ice.
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