Our chart-skimming 2010 playlist doesn't just add to the deafening buzz of newly anointed pop stars like Katy Perry and Ke$ha; it's also a flawless reminder of the year's other hits, including the mani …

When the '00s came along, country music hit the new millennium running, and never stopped to look back for a second. A fresh crop of country royalty was on the rise, with everyone from Lady Antebellum  …

The '00s were the time when it became cool to be a country singer - hell, even rockers started setting their sights on Nashville. How did Darius Rucker finally get folks to quit calling him "Hootie"? B …

It seemed like the entire country was in the throes of Saturday Night Fever: three-piece white polyester suits everywhere, glowing almost supernaturally under the disco's black lights and mirror …

Willie Hutch is probably best known for writing such smashes as "I'll Be There" for the Jackson 5. But he turned his mad performance skills loose on the soundtrack to the Blaxploitation film The Mac …

They say a decade doesn't really define itself until about two-thirds of the way through, and that's sure how things turned out in the '90s. By 1997, the techno sounds of the Chemical Brothers and the  …

In 1997, the possibilities of pop seemed suddenly open to interpretation from artists all over the globe. OMC's Beck-like, postmodern cut-and-paste approach to dance-pop on "How Bizarre" marked the fir …

All you jazz cadets out there: your fast-track to the hippest of the hip starts here. Top of the heap is the great Wynton Marsalis, the trumpet sensation who initiated the "young lions" movement in the …

Ten years is a long time, and when the decade in question is the '60s - when rock and pop grew up and really came into its own - the range of sounds and styles is simply staggering. Scoring even one hi …