So it’s not a surprise that during these politically turbulent times and the ongoing ICE presence in Minnesota, musicians have used the craft to speak up. Here are five songs written in response to ...

Early childhood curriculum strengthens music skills that support reading achievement I have been BLOWN away by what the ...

Bruce Springsteen lambasted the federal crackdown on immigrants during a performance Saturday as he dedicated a song to the memory of Renee Nicole Good, who was killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis ...

During a surprise performance at a New Jersey benefit concert Saturday night, Bruce Springsteen dedicated a song to the late Renee Good and said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents should ...

For north Minneapolis singer/songwriter Geoffrey Lamar Wilson, it started even before the public knew anything about Renee Good. “I came home and started writing this song before learning her name,” ...

Responding to tragedy in song is an age-old American tradition. From slave spirituals to civil rights-era protest songs to the YG and Kendrick Lamar songs that soundtracked the last decade of Black ...

LOWER MANHATTAN (WABC) -- Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent the morning with YouTube sensation Ms. Rachel to sing to children at a school in Lower Manhattan. The toddler whisperer, whose real name is Rachel ...

Fernando Mendoza does not rely on loud music to get ready for games. The Indiana quarterback showed that again this week with a calm and honest answer. Indiana enters Friday night unbeaten and one win ...

Stephen Schwartz shares what the creative process was like writing Glinda's "Girl in the Bubble" and Elphaba's "No Place Like Home." Patrick Gomez is an Executive Editor at Entertainment Weekly.

Like Neil Diamond himself, "Song Sung Blue" — the story of a Neil Diamond tribute act working through life's trials and tribulations — is a little bit schmaltzy, but full of heart and warmth. Or, as ...

Feel-good songs feel like a bit of a rare breed nowadays. But back in the 1980s, feel-good songs were all the rage, and plenty of pop and rock hits from that decade topped the charts. Let’s look at ...

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