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Gen. Dave Goldfein, an avid guitarist, may not get many opportunities to stretch his musical muscles these days (what with running the largest Air Force in the world and all). But recently, the chief of staff had the chance to sit in…

The Wisconsin state Senate passed a resolution to welcome new military jets to Truax Field in Madison on Tuesday, while local leaders and activists are trying to convince the U.S. Air Force to put the planes somewhere else. Madison is…

If inventor Rube Goldberg were to transform a junkyard into musical architecture, it might resemble the Music Box Village. By day, it is an interactive playground for tourists. By night, it’s a live music venue for exploratory…

Hazard is a native of New York who bills himself as the son of a coal miner and a compliance director at Morgan Stanley-Dean Witter. The 57-year-old Hazard unleashed a string of hits from his 2018 opus "Tough Market" backed up by his son…

In a recent interview with British rapper Zuby, Ben Shapiro, who is right about an array of important issues, said something very wrong: In my view, and in the view of my music theorist father who went to music school, there are three…

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Ken Burns' latest epic documentary "Country Music" takes a 16 1/2 hour deep dive into the music's intersection with American history. Both World War II and the Vietnam War play major roles in the story. We spoke…

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has celebrated the American story as told through the Civil War, baseball, and national parks, among other projects. With country music, he discovered a genre whose roots reflect the nation’s…

Ileana Cabra. (César Berríos) On July 25, 1978, Puerto Rican independence activists Carlos Enrique Soto-Arriví and Arnaldo Darío Rosado-Torres took a taxi driver hostage and ordered him to drive to Cerro Maravilla, a…

Updated: Here’s a new animated “bar chart race” visualization above (see previous visualization here with data through 2018) showing the format share of recorded music sales in each year from 1973 to 2019 based on sales data from the…