A heavy metal fan’s way of seeing the world stems from a mix of skepticism, intensity, and brutal honesty. It’s not about ...

Their brilliant debut album First Utterance (1970) is highly recommended. A chilling, hypnotic blend of psych-folk and ...

Where earlier heavy metal could be gloomy and occult, Sodom raised the temperature even more with gory, blasphemous lyrics, ...

Singers of the classic carol – which some historians trace to 16th-century England – clamor for figgy pudding, a traditional ...

Roughly 225 years after Novalis’s unspoken question, an unlikely source has (presumably unintentionally) posited a new answer: “Now is the fake,” croons 22-year-old Irish singer-songwriter Dove Ellis ...

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

In this world of Faust (and the songs of Wolfgang), there is an emotional turmoil in desperation ("NME," "Natutulog Kong ...

"It sounded as though someone was being murdered. The police were called out for the first time in five years" ...

Connie Francis, 87. The wholesome pop star’s 1950s and ’60s hits included “Pretty Little Baby” and “Who’s Sorry Now?” — the ...

Today in Music History for Dec. 14: In 1836, Frances Ridley Havergal, English devotional writer, was born. In frail health most of her life, Havergal nevertheless authored such hymns as "Take My Life" ...

From Steel City Con to Handmade Arcade, drag brunch, "The Nutcracker" and WinterTide, here's what to do in the Burgh this ...

How A Swiss Wrote The 'Most Annoying Song Of All Time'. Swiss accordionist Werner Thomas composed the tune for The Birdie Song in the 1950s to liven up the après-ski in eastern Switzerland. It went on ...