HITS HIGH 5: BUSTING BRACKETS

How are your brackets looking? Kicking yourself for an ill-founded belief in the Bradley Braves? Thinking you’re the sharp one who picked Murray State only to realize there are people with them in the Elite Eight? Between check-ins on Wisconsin-Oregon and Google searches about the locations of Wofford and Liberty, check out this week’s High 5.

We continue our look at the roots of rock & soul in parts two and three in our series. And here are the songs that made history in the mid-‘50s and the late ’50s.

On-demand audio streaming now makes up more than three-quarters of all music consumption in the U.S.

Major festival announcements came out this week: Michael Lang’s 50th anniversary celebration of Woodstock and the annual four-day Lollapalooza in Chicago.

Apple and Spotify take issue with one another over recent legal and governmental actions via blog posts.

Ever been spinning and wondered “how much are those songwriters being paid as I try to keep up at 80 rpm?” Some say “nothing.”