The Great Groove Band performs with local kids at the Old Songs Festival of Traditional Music and Dance at Altamont Fairgrounds. A crowd enjoys a concert at Old Songs Festival of Traditional Music and ...

John McCutcheon, seen here playing hammered dulcimer and flanked by some of the 15 or so other instruments he plays, has been called the Renaissance man of folk music. He will be making a return ...

All the growth in the music business now comes from old songs — how did we get here, and is there a way back? The new music market is actually shrinking. All the growth in the market is coming from ...

Artificial intelligence can generate new songs and even artists, but it can also be used to raid hits of the past for new earnings potential. AI is being used already to separate elements -- called ...

Streaming services are helping revive America’s most old-fashioned, undigital genre. Charley Crockett, a rising star in the roots-music field, performing in Nashville, Ind., in May.Credit...Kristine ...

You know the moment, when you’re at a party, and the playlist humming in the background suddenly plays that song. Everyone perks up. Phones pause mid-scroll, and the conversation stalls. Some songs ...

After peeling back the layers of alleged "racist undertones" in Jason Aldean's new song, an influencer has dissected Toby Keith's song "Beer For My Horses" in the same way. Destinee Stark took a look ...

When it came time to commission a new pop song for her bittersweet romance Materialists, Celine Song had a simple guideline for prospective songwriters: Make it like John Prine’s “In Spite of ...

TikTok often popularizes songs from music’s biggest and buzziest artists. But one of the most viral songs right now was recorded in 1961. More than six decades ago, singer Connie Francis recorded ...

Like the tales of all good troubadours, the story of Old Crow Medicine Show starts with a lot of street-corner busking and a little bit of chance. The old-time influenced band formed in 1998. After ...

Although Old Dominion first rose to fame in 2014 with the release of their self-titled EP, the band's members had already established their own individual careers in the music scene before finding ...

Stranger Things star Joe Keery has secured his first number one on the UK singles chart with a three-year-old song. End Of ...