What rock and metal songs have been turned into piano ballads? Do you know of any rock or metal song that eventually found its counterpart in an equally valid piano ballad version? Because whether a ...

Many country ballads from the 1950s have long been standards, using simple melodies and raw lyrics we can't stop singing.

Love songs, heartbreak songs and other sentimental pieces of music have existed for centuries. But which rock band really crafted this type of song that has inspired so many others after it? Was it ...

Power ballads might just be the perfect type of songs to listen to if you want a hefty dose of anthemic, emotional lyrics, with enough rock elements to jam out to. In 1981, power ballads were all the ...

With Oscar's Ballads, we are reminded that, behind Oscar Peterson's blazing swing—with his furious pace that launched a thousand riffs, not to mention hundreds of imitators—Peterson's solo ...

Some stories stand the test of time: Shakespeare's plays, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and the Child ballads. If you're unfamiliar with them, they're not for children. They're Scottish and ...

Would it be received differently today? On Christmas night in 1895, in a seedy bar in St Louis, Missouri, Lee Shelton shot a man who had stolen his Stetson hat. Almost exactly a century later, having ...

Bruno Mars' new Hot 100 leader 'When I Was Your Man' joins Adele's 2011 smash 'Someone Like You' as the only piano-and-vocal-exclusive No. 1s in the chart's 54-year history. By Gary Trust Amid a boom ...

George Miller has gone by a lot of names in his 26 years. He went viral as Filthy Frank, igniting the “Harlem Shake” crazy, landed at No. 70 on the Billboard 200 album chart as comedic rapper Pink Guy ...