Despite being blind since infancy, the “My Cherie Amour” and “Superstition” singer paved a career filled with 25 Grammy ...

Country music has long been billed as three chords and the truth. And while those three chords have evolved over the years, the “truth” often gets told using many of the same familiar words. I then ...

There are many ways to write songs, but I tend to prefer lyrics when they veer off into abstraction. Perhaps a balance tilted more toward emotion than intellect. And it is a delicate balance, for sure ...

Slang doesn’t form in a vacuum—music drives it. Many rap slang terms come from African American Vernacular English (AAVE), while others stem from pop or older eras. ‘That Has Never Been Tolerated in ...

Slang, a term for the informal, non-standard lingo used in social settings, doesn't originate in a vacuum. The invented words we casually throw around come from the culture around us, particularly the ...

Former Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider has just released a new song in tribute to the late Charlie Kirk, and in an interview, he says the song is a "battle cry" for conservatives. The 65-year-old ...

At Paste Music, we’re listening to so many new tunes on any given day, we barely have any time to listen to each other. Nevertheless, every week we can swing it, we take stock of the previous seven ...