Frank Zappa once provocatively asked, "If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?" This insightful question set the stage for a pivotal moment in music history. In 1985, Zappa ...

Many people believe that to be a great artist is to push the envelope. The testing of norms happens in all art forms but it's most striking in music, arguably the purest and most accessible form of ...

Four of The Beatles' biggest hits were temporarily banned from the radio after the September 11 attacks, but fans are scratching their heads about the decision decades later. After the terrorist ...

The Beatles have 20 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. That is more than enough. However, The Beatles had a surplus of album tracks that seemingly also could have peaked at No. 1 if they had been ...

It was a graveyard smash. It caught on in a flash. And Elvis Presleyreportedly thought it was trash. It's perhaps the quintessential Halloween song, Bobby "Boris" Pickettand the Crypt-Kickers' ...

In 1969, the BBC’s Top of the Pops banned its first song in the program’s history for its inherently sexual nature, despite the songwriter calling it an “anti-f***” song and the fact that he wrote it ...

Country music is all about life but, for four Oklahomans, it caused their songs or music videos to be placed on banned song lists. Some for nudity in the music video. Some for lyrics that went against ...

Eedris Abdulkareem's song "Tell Your Papa" is a lyrical protest against Nigeria's worsening socio-economic conditions under President Bola Tinubu's leadership. This statement was originally published ...

Abdulkareem released a protest song last week in which he delivered stinging criticism of the Tinubu government's policies, which resulted in NBC banning the song. Controversial Nigerian rapper, ...

The Russian prosecution office opened a case against 18-year-old Diana “Naoko” Loginova, a student at the Rimsky-Korsakov Music College and vocalist of the St. Petersburg street band Stoptime. The ...