For Marc Smirnoff, the magazine’s editor and publisher, certain aspects of music have always been special -- its uplifting nature, its intimacy, even its ability to “sweep down and take complete hold ...

San Antonio's iconic music publisher, Southern Music Co., has been acquired by Lauren Keiser Music Publishing of Maryland Heights, Mo., a St. Louis suburb, the companies have announced. An acquisition ...

What classifies as a "one-hit wonder?" "One-Hit Wonder" has taken on quite a dirty connotation throughout its many decades in the music industry lexicon. A hack. A novelty. A falling star. All of ...

Sometimes we think certain genres are only for certain people, that songs made in East Coast cities are for people living in those East Coast cities. Same for West Coast music, Texas music, southern ...

What do you call Southern music that's not soul our gospel, not country or blues or even crunk? Wayne Robins ponders that question while enjoying a steady dose of the Handsome Family, Johnny Dowd and… ...

To go or not to go: That was the question. Whether it would be nobler to hide from the slings and arrows of this outrageous virus, or to take to the road despite this sea of troubles and by defying ...

What the swimsuit issue is to Sports Illustrated, the Southern music issue is to The Oxford American: A highly anticipated, carefully curated special edition that draws extra attention to the ...

Oxford American magazine's annual Southern music issue is out. It's a greatest hits version highlighting the publication's music writing over two decades and was guest-edited by singer and songwriter ...

Centering a music festival around “Southern Sounds,” as the Koger Center for the Arts is doing with its new concert series on their outdoor Plaza stage beginning this Sunday, April 30, begs a host of ...

The arrival of the Great Southern Music Hall in 1974 meant that concerts, in Gainesville, need not be sweaty, quasi-tribal affairs with music lovers jammed knee-to-elbow into an outdoor space. For ...

Every year, the quarterly magazine the Oxford American produces a southern music issue. Each music issue focuses on a different state and this year the editors and writers will celebrate the music of ...