To many Americans, it is unimaginable to consider music as a freedom. This expression is a foundational value of the United States, a Constitutional right to each citizen. A threat to this cultural ...

April 1988 is still seared into singer Klaus Meine's memory. Less than a decade earlier, he and his bandmates in the Scorpions had conquered America; now, the German metal group was taking its brand ...

Jeff Cheen, the music executive who worked with John Lennon and Pink Floyd and helped bring Western pop to China, died Oct.

Yoichi Shibuya, a prominent figure in Japan's rock music scene, died of aspiration pneumonia, his company said Tuesday. He was 74. Shibuya launched the magazine "Rockin'On" in 1972 to cover Western ...

Raised in the village of Tchintabaraden in rural Niger, Mdou Moctar learned to play music on a guitar he made himself. It had five strings because the plank of wood he used for the fretboard was too ...

When Ravi Shankar introduced Western musicians in the 1960s to Indian classical music, he couldn’t have imagined he’d change rock music history forever. Shankar inspired George Harrison, and soon, ...

With a new exhibit, a Nashville institution pays tribute to another town known for turning out time-tested tunes: Los Angeles. Last week, the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum debuted "Western Edge: ...