As a reminder of how all this started, feel free to click on the first Global Song Competition post in which we determined ...

Billboard Japan spoke with the band about the making of Fujieda EP, the perspective behind "Skins" & their 30th-anniversary overseas shows.

Written in only 30 minutes in 1969, Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline became a timeless sports and singalong anthem.

SAKY produces hip-hop that reflects his experiences as a Chinese American who grew up in Chapel Hill. He talks about his ...

The musical and personal lives of Bob Dylan and the Beatles were intertwined in myriad ways, as author Jim Windolf teases out ...

Tony Award winner Lea Salonga marks just the latest high-profile get for Broadway and Vine, the five-year-old festival ...

The 1973 activist folk album "A Grain of Sand" is widely recognized as one of the first and most influential albums of Asian ...

What gives music the power to move people from witness to action? Sociologist Ronald Eyerman reflects on protest songs, political memory, collective identity, and the enduring role of artists from Joe ...

The son of Roy Ayers reflects on his father's iconic song "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" as a cultural touchstone and the ...

Bob Dylan changed rock forever in 1965 with a groundbreaking protest anthem that still stands as his greatest song ever.

Rosanne Cash writes about "Merry Golden Tree," a ballad that traveled from Europe to America’s shores carrying the seeds of folk and country music.

The year was 1965 and Black Americans had come to Montgomery, Alabama, to demonstrate peacefully voting rights. Many were ...