Protest requires people to take a stand and hold firm. Pop songs are designed to appeal across demographic lines. In music, ...

Opinion: Kid Rock and his country crooners can't hold a cultural candle to Bad Bunny, whose success embodies the best ...

Kid Rock previewed his headlining of Turning Point's halftime show, saying he wants nothing to do with the liberal Grammy ...

Nearly every decade and sub-genre of rock was represented, from Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" (1991) at #16 to Fleetwood ...

Few songs merit the term ‘power ballad’ quite as emphatically as Total Eclipse Of The Heart, the 1983 mega-hit for Welsh singer, Bonnie Tyler, which shot to No.1 in the UK, US and all across the world ...

Sad songs bring us together. Here at Whiskey Riff, we often say "sad country songs make me happy," because they do. Of course, it's one thing to hurt your own feelings, but the connection you feel to ...

Perpetual whiner Bruce Springsteen can’t seem to stick to songwriting and singing for entertainment’s sake, releasing a new track in response to the “state terror being visited […] ...

For No One reveals the Beatles at their most emotionally devastating, with Paul McCartney crafting a heartbreakingly subtle ...

Malice and Pusha T—aka Clipse—came back swinging with their last record, Let God Sort Em Out (which also made our list of ...

I’ll be honest, the Willie Nelson I have listed is the one that really gets to me … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 1,522 of The Daily Dirt. 1. One of my many theories deals with ...

I need your help. I want to do my own Extremely Scientific Survey of the saddest songs you’ve ever heard. Bonus points if they make you cry. Why do we enjoy songs that make us cry? It seems like the ...