The 1990s didn’t just give us some of the best hit rock songs ever released. The decade also ushered in a new era of heavy metal and introduced the world to grunge. Later in the decade, a handful of ...

Nikki Roy told Newsweek that this phenomenon highlights just "how powerful music is as a therapeutic tool" to regulate emotions.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — If you ever need a reminder that time moves faster the older you are, just look at pop culture. Songs that once blasted car stereos, movies that packed movie theaters, and TV shows ...

Ah, Christmas! The twinkling lights, the smell of gingerbread, and the warm, fuzzy feeling that comes rushing back when you hear those iconic holiday tunes. Some of the best songs associated with this ...

Eric Church says in his iconic song, “Springsteen,” that a melody can sound like a memory. It’s one of the most succinct and powerful ways anyone has described the heart-swelling sense of nostalgia we ...

Hearing a song from high school, scrolling through old photos, and smelling a favorite childhood snack. These moments transport us backward, flooding consciousness with warmth and memory. Research by ...

Getting one’s groove on, A.K.A. busting a move, is an age-old tradition that dates back more than 50,000 years to the time of Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon humans, who rhythmically writhed to drumming ...

Songs with staying power transcend the superficial to convey meaning and feeling of lasting value. Most songs are readily classified as happy or sad, but some capture the distinctive bittersweet blend ...

Is there a more powerful marketing tool than nostalgia? It's an essential element of many a reunion tour, where audiences clamor to see acts from pop music's past romp through the hits of their ...

Last month, on a Sunday night under a full moon, Tara and 90,000 other Oasis fans filled the Rose Bowl in Pasadena for the long-awaited Live 25 tour. This was a show seventeen years in the making and ...