These are hardly the first songs to come under scrutiny. For more than a century, the evolution of popular music has delivered stark parallels to Western society's progression. Popular songs and ...

Wille Nelson's new album, 'Dream Chaser,' is arriving on May 29. It includes 'I Can't Read Your Mind,' which he wrote with Bob Dylan.

The Alabama-born guitarist recorded with Bob Marley and the Wailers on Catch a Fire and Joni Mitchell on Court and Spark ...

Fifty-nine years ago today, Jimi Hendrix released what would go on to be one of his best-known and most talked-about songs.

Rod Stewart’s biggest hit, Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright), sparked controversy and unexpected inspiration that only ...

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Attorney-at-law, Hugh Wildman, referenced lyrics from Bob Marley’s song Small Axe on Monday, to encapsulate his views on prosecutor Kathy Ann Pyke’s recent meeting with two witnesses in the Home ...

Hip-hop figures like Killer Mike claims lyrics shouldn't be used as evidence in a case where a man given the death sentence by a white jury.

Onstage with Lamb of God, singer Randy Blythe is a man of action and fury. He’s a formidable presence at the head of his Richmond, Virginia, groove-metal act, but he’d be the first to point to the ...

Killer Mike, Travis Scott, T.I. and other artists said James Broadnax was sent to death row in Texas based partly on his artistic expression.

Starting out as a jazz-rock group called Mind Power in 1976, they changed direction entirely when original vocalist Sid ...