Few musical genres capture the art of telling a sad story beautifully quite like classic country and Western songs. This storytelling music comes from places where life is hard: working-class Southern ...

Steve Cormier is fond of saying he doesn’t write “ride into the sunset songs.” What Cormier, a veteran Western musician, means is that the cowboy songs he pens are rooted in the life of actual, ...

English music lost ground last year. Not to other English artists, but to singers Western audiences can’t even understand. Peso Pluma racked up 1.9 billion streams in 2023, singing Mexican corridos.

Multi-generational Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel turned 55 this year. The band celebrated with the release of their new album “Riding High in Texas” Friday. The collection features 10 songs ...

Western pop music has always been influenced by artists and styles from around the world. A new book aims to give those varied influences — all of them — their due. Special correspondent Tom Casciato ...

“Seven” by Jungkook and Latto is the most streamed song of Jungkook’s career, and in just over a year and a half, it has outstreamed every single song by BTS, Jungkook’s original group, over their ...