While seedy stories of Berlin's "wasted youth" subculture may suggest Germans care only about 18-hour warehouse parties, the truth is this: The future-forward, post-World War II streets of Germany have …

German techno's treasured fringe status among taste-making DJs and listeners with well-oiled turntables has ensured its ahead-of-the-curve edginess for years now. Meaning music that constantly redefine …

Not long after Bob Dylan upended the entire music world by plugging in at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, the revolution spread to the U.K. The singer-songwriter genre exploded, with the likes of Al St …

If you think former Fairport vocalist Ian Matthews ripped off the Eagles in his version of "Seven Bridges Road," you've got it backwards; this version predates the Eagles' by seven years. Two of …

Dynamic, dramatic, breathtakingly beautiful - the work of Scandinavian composers reflects a deep and personal connection with their homelands. Finnish composer Jean Sibelius' symphonic poem Finlandi …

As the Woodstock nation hoofed it on back to its home territories, a sound as Southern as hooch and hound dogs reemerged, like cicadas after a long slumber, out of Macon, Georgia, headquarters to Capri …

Like Charlie Daniels had promised so many years before, "The South's gonna do it again." While the battle-scarred Allmans and Skynyrd staggered into the '90s as original members wore away like snakeski …

It was billed as "The Sound of Young America," but the growing Motown label was being modest: in truth, the imprint's output was the sound of all America, with sparkly soul hits that appealed to …

Like soul, funk is something you either have or you don't. But unlike soul, you don't wanna - no, you don't dare - let your funk loose in polite company. If soul can be found in a Baptist …