Beats of Fort Wayne, a WANE 15+ music series, features a new episode focused on artists, albums and songs tied to the month of February.

In a letter sent to all music nominees and obtained exclusively by Variety, the Academy emphasized that the best original song category will remain fully integrated into the broadcast, even as live ...

Not every song in 2025 was a winner. Some were overproduced, some were overhyped and some just left us wondering who signed off on them. Here are five songs that, for better or worse, stood out for ...

Willie Nelson is the writer behind some of country music’s biggest hits, including Patsy Cline’s “Crazy”, Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Paper”, Faron Young’s “Hello Walls”, and more. But perhaps surprisingly, ...

In the 1980s, country music was gaining popularity, and quickly. Some of the best songs of all time, songs that are still revered today, came out in the 1980s. As the format was changing and evolving, ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd has “about 30 songs” written with late guitarist Gary Rossington that the band still hopes to record and release. In a recent conversation with French outlet Riff X, singer Johnny Van ...

With Tony! Toni! Toné!, his songs captured the mood of how people lived and died in Oakland. By Danyel Smith When his family moved from West to East Oakland, Calif., young D’Wayne Wiggins had to make ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...

WILMINGTON — Wayne Kemp, 66, passed away on November 5, 2025 after a courageous and mostly uphill battle with A.L.S. He was a devoted husband, father, and friend who will be deeply missed by all who ...

WITH MUSIC FROM THE NEW HOLLAND BAND. AND IN DOWNTOWN LANCASTER. TONIGHT, SOME VETERANS WILL BE PERFORMING AT THE WARE CENTER. ORGANIZERS SAY THE ANNUAL EVENT FEATURES MUSICIANS WHO ARE PART OF THE ...

A 62-page document written by President Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again pick to run NASA, billionaire Jared Isaacman, outlines a sweeping, ambitious, and at times controversial plan for the space ...

Here are all six Metallica songs co-written by Dave Mustaine, ranked worst to best. Mustaine played a crucial role in the early development of Metallica. Between 1982 and early 1983, the future ...