GCN contributor David Ferguson is back with his annual Christmas playlist of queer festive songs.

When the music video for this standout track from Gaga's latest album, Mayhem, had its surprise premiere during a commercial ...

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Zach Top is slated to perform his song "Guitar" at the 2025 CMA Awards, and the lyrics describe his lifelong fascination with music. Zach Top is a 28-year-old country singer-songwriter and guitarist.

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade's end, ...

Welcome to “The Lyrics of a Showgirl.” Any Taylor Swift album is endlessly quotable, and her 12th is far from the first exception, even if you have to go a few tracks in to “The Life of a Showgirl” to ...

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of America. This was the decade when MTV revolutionized how we consumed music, when ...

Even outside of the film “KPop Demon Hunters,” HUNTR/X is making history in real life! The fictional girl group’s smash hit “Golden” (sung by EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami) is now spending its fifth ...

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