Family gatherings, reconnecting with old friends, celebrating beloved traditions — the holiday season is always a time of nostalgia. This sentimentality extends to our playlists. Holiday music has a ...

This article follows the Direct Message methodology, designed to cut through the noise and reveal the deeper truths behind the stories we live. There’s a certain magic about songs from the 80s and 90s ...

From the late 1980s through the early '90s, the "Madchester" music scene was born out of rave club culture in Manchester, England. Combining rock, house, dance, electronic and psychedelic music, bands ...

There's an argument going on. Constantly. What decade had the best music? "Surely," you say, "it was mine." That's what everyone says. Everyone. No matter which decade you went to high school, you ...

There was a time when music videos were as important as the radio in promoting the hottest artists and songs of the day. Back in the '80s and '90s, MTV was one of the most powerful cultural forces in ...

There can be something deeply satisfying about gut-wrenching music and lovesick ballads. From singing, or sometimes screaming, along with the musicians to the poetic lyrics telling the story or ...

With a name like Mixtape, it's no surprise the Netflix movie features a killer soundtrack. This coming-of-age comedy drama is set in the late '90s and is filled with classic rock music dating back to ...

Artists still make music videos to promote their work, but it’s a much different world out there from when every new clip premiered with Ballyhoo on a channel called MTV (which still exists but is a ...