From his first EP through his latest batch of songs, Justin Townes Earle has written probingly and eloquently about the rootlessness of touring life. His subjects are often the people and especially ...

The year is 1993. The rambunctious children of America have temporarily put away their slap bracelets and stopped playing with their Hypercolor shirts, and are sitting down to watch television.

One of the greatest misconceptions about Taylor Swift is that she only knows how to write diaristic heartbreak songs. It’s an easy – and lazy – claim her detractors often make to disempower the most ...

Naysayers may assume pop culture perverts young minds, but a New York City educator proves otherwise. Erica Buddington, a teacher at Capital Preparatory Harlem Charter Academy in Harlem, N.Y. (a ...

Fargo - When Sam Beam released "Ghost on Ghost," his fifth album as Iron & Wine, some longtime fans did a double take. For his first handful of releases, fans also did a double take - to better hear ...

Paul Basile is the driving force behind the Brooklyn-based indie-folk band Great Elk, but he found his voice in an unlikely place. He grew up on Long Island, first learning to play saxophone, then ...

A New York City sixth-grade teacher's geography remix of a popular rap song has gone viral, with 52,000 retweets and more than 100,000 likes since she posted it to Twitter last week. Erica Buddington, ...