In his 2007 memoir Love Is a Mix Tape, rock journalist Rob Sheffield revisits love and heartbreak via a collection of music tapes. In his new book (and sequel of sorts) Turn Around Bright Eyes: The ...

You know what’s weird? There are probably more people on Earth who know rock songs from the 1960s than there are people who know about rock songs from 2025. For whatever reason, there are just so many ...

Picking the perfect karaoke song can be a tough choice. The song has to be popular enough so people can sing along with you, but easy enough for a karaoke beginner to master. In honor of National ...

We recently received news out of Japan that the inventor of the karaoke machine died. Shigeichi Negishi was 100 years old. He prototyped and released the world's first commercially available karaoke ...

When 1980 hit, music was in a transition of sorts. The 1970s were over, and a new decade was here. But what would it sound like? How would the rock and disco tunes from the decade prior influence the ...

Calum Marsh: I had made the classic error of the amateur karaoke-er: I’d mistaken a good song for a good song to sing aloud We independently select everything we ...

Back Tracks is a weekly music column that studies the past, revisiting tunes that may be old but still resonate today. As a music writer, I find it difficult to promote karaoke, a mostly drunken take ...