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Tom Petty's 50 Greatest Songs

His hits have defined rock radio since the Seventies, and he never stopped writing great music. Here’s the definitive guide to his best songs → Read More

Dolly Parton: 20 Insanely Great Songs Only Hardcore Fans Know

From one about gold digging to another about PMS, these little-known tunes show the master songwriter's wit, wisdom and heart → Read More

See Kesha, Maren Morris Sing 'Your Love Is My Drug' at All for the Hall New York

Maren Morris, Kesha, Vince Gill and Emmylou Harris performed at the All for the Hall concert in New York, benefitting the Country Music Hall of Fame. → Read More

How Moe Bandy's Cheating, Drinking Songs Made Him Country's Tragic Clown

How songs like "It's a Cheatin' Situation" and "Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life" made Moe Bandy country music's tragic voice. → Read More

Tom Petty's 50 Greatest Songs

His hits have defined rock radio since the Seventies, and he never stopped writing great music. Here's the definitive guide to his best songs → Read More

Tom Petty's 50 Greatest Songs

His hits have defined rock radio since the Seventies, and he never stopped writing great music. Here's the definitive guide to his best songs → Read More

ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons on 'Unthinkable' Hurricane Damage, Houston-Area Concert

Houston native and ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons discusses Hurricane Harvey's aftermath and the band's plans to donate $100,000 to relief efforts. → Read More

ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons on 'Unthinkable' Hurricane Damage, Houston-Area Concert

Houston native and ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons discusses Hurricane Harvey's aftermath and the band's plans to donate $100,000 to relief efforts. → Read More

MTV VMAs 2017: The Best, Worst and Most WTF Moments

In the all-time ranking of memorable VMA moments, a speech by a descendant of Confederate general Robert E. Lee ( introducing Charlottesville victim Heather Heyer's mother, Susan Bro ) may not be able to beat, say, the fist-fight between Kid Rock and Tommy Lee. Yet in the context of the 2017 ceremony, it was undoubtedly a highlight, its tone consistent with a show in which artists repeatedly… → Read More

MTV VMAs 2017: The Best, Worst and Most WTF Moments

Kendrick Lamar opened the VMAs with another emphatic performance , blazing through "DNA" and "Humble" with taut focus. Both of the Damn. tracks were produced with club-shaking force by Mike Will Made It, but at the VMAs, Lamar reworked them as muscular funk-rock, full of ringing guitars and clobbering drum fills. He opened the performance clad head-to-toe in red and rapped from within a shifting… → Read More

MTV VMAs 2017: The Best, Worst and Most WTF Moments

From Katy Perry's spotty debut as host to Kendrick Lamar's victory to a Chester Bennington tribute, here's the evening's highs and lows → Read More

MTV VMAs 2017: The Best, Worst and Most WTF Moments

At this point, Ed Sheeran has rapped and collaborated with rappers more than, really, anybody but Ed Sheeran could possibly ask for. But it was still a little surprising when SoundCloud rap's favorite rock star Lil Uzi Vert crashed the stage to rap over the end of Sheeran's ubiquitous trop house chart-topper "The Shape of You." And when Sheeran began singing Uzi's "all my friends are dead" emo… → Read More

MTV VMAs 2017: The Best, Worst and Most WTF Moments

There was a lot to take in during Fifth Harmony's performance of "Angel" and "Down:" Tightly coordinated movements from the group, a slew of silver-suited dancers, Normani Kordei wowing the crowd by dropping into a split onstage, a brassy, EDM-inspired breakdown and a cool-as-ice Gucci Mane ambling onstage to deliver a laid-back verse. But all of this was overshadowed by Fifth Harmony's pointed… → Read More

MTV VMAs 2017: The Best, Worst and Most WTF Moments

There was a lot to take in during Fifth Harmony's performance of "Angel" and "Down:" Tightly coordinated movements from the group, a slew of silver-suited dancers, Normani Kordei wowing the crowd by → Read More

Vic Mensa Talks His Intensely Personal LP, 'The Autobiography'

The Chicago rapper talks his personal debut LP: "There were certain things I was able to tap into ... that I had never really been able to vocalize" → Read More

Vic Mensa Talks His Intensely Personal LP, 'The Autobiography'

The Chicago rapper talks his personal debut LP: "There were certain things I was able to tap into ... that I had never really been able to vocalize" → Read More

Review: Luke Bryan Pursues the Endless Party at New York City Blowout

Luke Bryan performed an age-defying sold-out concert at New York City's Madison Square Garden. → Read More

20 Best EDM and Electronic Albums of 2016

Each passing year seems to bring more hand-wringing over the so-called "EDM bubble." Whether or not the shiny, mainstream, pop-dance sphere is set to burst, electronic music, as it always does, continues to rave on. This year's best albums prove the ostensible underground's in tip-top health, with dance fans ready for a darker and headier bent, from challenging young artists like Nicolas Jaar… → Read More

20 Best EDM and Electronic Albums of 2016

Before this, his debut studio full-length, Haitian-Canadian producer Kaytranada, racked up a near-encyclopedic discography of remixes and production credits. Officially and unofficially, he gave everyone from Talib Kweli to Erykah Badu to Janet Jackson a heavy dose of futurism, with vocals hinging on glossy, bubbling tracks drawing from Brit sounds like two-step and broken beat. It's no… → Read More

20 Best EDM and Electronic Albums of 2016

Two dance-music architects form one monumental brain and go all-in for deep dub techno of the most mantric and mesmerizing kind. The label, Tresor, counts as a stamp of techno at its most serious and austere, and the cast is formidable: Juan Atkins, from techno's origin story in early-1980s Detroit, and Moritz Von Oswald, part of the Berlin-based sound and movement surrounding his formative act… → Read More