One day, while living in Los Angeles earlier this year, Mon Laferte jumped in her car, rolled down the windows, and began to drive through Malibu. She had the music turned all the way up and she felt, ...

Somehow, the 1940s are almost a century away. The decade, which saw the world go to war for a second time and the fall of the German Nazis, was also an exhilarating time for music. In some ways, it ...

It would be difficult to identify popularized regional music of any stripe that hadn’t begun in some lively, compact scene where music makers exchanged ideas and found a responsive, enduring audience ...

Frank Sinatra poses with an NBC microphone for a portrait to publicize one of his many 1940s radio programs. On July 27, 1940, Billboard magazine published its first “music popularity chart” listing ...