Michigan-born guitarist Billy Strings closed his spring tour with a tribute to the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and the tragedy on Lake Superior.

Billy Joel decided he wanted to try writing a modern folk song. "The Downeaster 'Alexa'" came out of that effort.

Memes are the currency of the election campaign online. Here’s a report card on the Labor, Liberal and Greens efforts, from the good to the tone-deaf.

Snoop Dogg has found his niche in Hollywood and might be the most family-friendly stoner to grace the spotlight. When you can honor blowing smoke and watching Frozen in the same breath and people love ...

Starring Michael B. Jordan in a dual role as Smoke and Stack, twin brothers in Mississippi in the early 1930s, the movie takes on the history of blues music and mixes it with a supernatural story ...

For decades, Cave has performed in theaters around the United States, but his tour in support of Wild God translates well to ...

Spencer clearly wasn't playing the blues, but a real if fractured appreciation of blues and R&B was audible in the band's music amid the chaotic wail of guitars and drums. Not part of alt-rock's ...

And composer Ludwig Göransson merges Sammie’s blues song with hip-hop beats, a house-music line, African drumbeats and chants, and a range of modern instruments as the song sprawls out.

Older songs, like “Red Right Hand,” felt almost ... gothic vignettes of death on his Murder Ballads album and writing lyrics inspired by William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, and Flannery ...