Billy Joel has a new song coming next week. Before it arrives, revisit “The Stranger” and tracks by Juelz Santana, Dick Hyman and more. By Lindsay Zoladz When Billy Joel was working on what would ...

Pop and rock musicians generally have a multitude of instruments at their disposal to bring the sounds they have in their heads to fruition. But now and again, nothing captures the moment quite like ...

In many ways, the 1990s were a decade of experimentation. When it came to music, genres blended everywhere you looked. All of a sudden, rock tracks had DJs scratching and rappers rapping. Pop songs ...

Peter Bjorn & John had already released a pair of marginally-successful albums and were even beginning to gain a small amount of notoriety as being one of Sweden’s most promising young pop bands by ...

Some classic pop and rock songs down the decades have featured distinctive whistling. Numerous publications have compiled rankings on the topic, but this is ChatGPT's verdict on the top whistling ...

When The New York Times pop music critic Lindsay Zoladz heard that Billy Joel was releasing a new single, it prompted her to return to some of his back catalog, including the 1977 album “The Stranger, ...