What rock and metal songs have been turned into piano ballads? Do you know of any rock or metal song that eventually found its counterpart in an equally valid piano ballad version? Because whether a ...

Power ballads are a uniquely 1980s thing, though they certainly didn’t disappear when the decade came to an end. But there’s something about these types of songs that just transports listeners back to ...

It's fun to mock the barrage of '80s rock ballads that came out of the rock and hair metal scene that decade, but as much as we'd like to pretend that upbeat anthems brought everyone out to the big ...

SPECIAL: Night Train marks the birthday of tenor saxophonist and soul jazz pioneer Gene Ammons - with music from across his ...

Power ballads might just be the perfect type of songs to listen to if you want a hefty dose of anthemic, emotional lyrics, with enough rock elements to jam out to. In 1981, power ballads were all the ...

The Monkees‘ ballads were some of the best of their time. They released many of their best ballads during their 1960s peak. Despite this, they also put out an all-time great ballad in 2016. “I Wanna ...

The book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono includes an interview from 1980. During the interview, he was asked about “If I Fell.” “That’s my first attempt at a ...

Emo is a genre which, of course, is known for conveying emotion in its purest form, and while plenty of the scene’s biggest hits — such as “Welcome to the Black Parade,” “Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down” and ...

Balladry becomes Noah Preminger. And that may come as a surprise to some. Over the past seventeen years and about as many releases, this critically-acclaimed tenor saxophonist has often made his mark ...