Late political activist Assata Shakur is the subject of a documentary and scripted project by sister-brother filmmakers ...

From exploding drummers to Stonehenge mishaps, Spinal Tap hilariously mirrored real rock history... sometimes a little too ...

This entry on our list of story songs from the 1970s is on the spooky side, and it’s quite a creative piece of work from Gordon Lightfoot. “The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald”, a folk rock classic ...

Macabre songs about murder, specters, and other morbidities are par for the course for country music, but Leon Payne’s bone-chilling country song from the mid-1970s takes this tradition to a whole new ...

It's a portrait of the '70s folk-rock star, and of "Cat's in the Cradle," the tune that turned daddy issues into mythology.

In November, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Maggie O’Farrell’s historical tear-jerker, about a death that shaped Shakespeare.