These rock ballads still get people to stand up and raise their lighters, swaying side to side, even though many of them only ...

Love songs, heartbreak songs and other sentimental pieces of music have existed for centuries. But which rock band really crafted this type of song that has inspired so many others after it? Was it ...

During a rainy summer afternoon at Zadie’s Market, a restaurant housed in what used to be the jail in Marshall, North ...

Emo is a genre which, of course, is known for conveying emotion in its purest form, and while plenty of the scene’s biggest hits — such as “Welcome to the Black Parade,” “Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down” and ...

The slow stuff was really shining in 1966. These four ballads were dominant on the charts while tugging at our hearts.

Bruno Mars' new Hot 100 leader 'When I Was Your Man' joins Adele's 2011 smash 'Someone Like You' as the only piano-and-vocal-exclusive No. 1s in the chart's 54-year history. By Gary Trust Amid a boom ...

George Miller has gone by a lot of names in his 26 years. He went viral as Filthy Frank, igniting the “Harlem Shake” crazy, landed at No. 70 on the Billboard 200 album chart as comedic rapper Pink Guy ...

Would it be received differently today? On Christmas night in 1895, in a seedy bar in St Louis, Missouri, Lee Shelton shot a man who had stolen his Stetson hat. Almost exactly a century later, having ...

Balladry becomes Noah Preminger. And that may come as a surprise to some. Over the past seventeen years and about as many releases, this critically-acclaimed tenor saxophonist has often made his mark ...

An analysis of why slow songs ruled top 40 in the late '80s but don't, for the most part, now. Plus, Hall & Oates' top 10 hits and Tom Wopat, "Luke Duke" himself, stops by. By Gary Trust As always, ...