Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. The 2000s marked a transformative period for music, but not ...

What an exciting 20 years it was for rock music between the 1990s and 2000s, filled with plenty of "god-tier" tracks that left their mark on music and culture. You can only hope that enough innovation ...

Response to our just-released list of the best 25 country songs from the last 25 years was fast and fierce. Several legendary artists failed to place a single song on the list, and fans noticed. A ...

The Grand Ole Opry, country music's beloved cultural institution and an American staple, turns 100 this year. To celebrate, the Opry is revealing a list its fans compiled of the 100 greatest country ...

The 2000s feel like just yesterday, and for many, it was the beginning of the future where flying cars and space travel would be the norm. Well, at least of music going from physical formats like CDs ...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a sort of renaissance happened in country music. Tons of songs from that era blended together pop elements with not-so-traditional country sounds, and some of those ...

Rock music has been at the forefront of the industry for decades, dominating the radio, record labels, and the biggest stages across the nation. So much so that the very definition of rock music may ...

Modern country music as we know it started to kick off in the 2000s. While the 20th century included classic artists like Dolly Parton, Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Garth Brooks and Charley Pride, the ...

Carrie Underwood and Blake Shelton join the ranks as creators of some of the best country music of all time, according to the ...