Nominees for the 60th annual Grammy Awards were revealed this morning, and Avenged Sevenfold, August Burns Red, Code Orange and Nothing More are among the many artists to be recognized this year. If ...

The current state of country music has been hotly debated in recent weeks, with the legendary likes of Loretta Lynn and Linda Ronstadt speaking out about their distaste for the genre's modern ...

Early in your book you write that “musicians … generally hate talking about genres.” Why do you think there is such an allergy to claiming a genre identity among artists? I think with music there is ...

Hip Hop artists don't often find success outside of their own genre. For the ones that did venture into other musical territories, a select group defied the traditional boundaries of rap and pushed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Part of being a musician is tapping into your creativity. Another part of it is trying new things to stay on top of trends.

Country music it hot this year, with more and more predominantly pop artists crossing genres and incorporating more country into their musical endeavors. Here are four of the biggest artists who have ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — From the Delta blues that shaped America’s musical roots to the voices that carried gospel and opera across global stages, Arkansas’s Black artists continue to reflect the state’s ...

It’s easy for artists to be pigeonholed into genres by music elitists in the modern era of collaboration and blurred lines. At the end of the day, though, if the songs sound good, they should be ...

Americana's breadth is as deep as it is wide. The genre embraces artists playing everything from gospel to pop, R&B to country, folk to soul; it's not so much about a particular sound as it is about a ...