Our 14-year-old recently spent his summer lawn mowing money on a used electric guitar, which is a good thing because it keeps him away from the Internet, the devil's playground. He has learned only ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2019. Two small-town Indiana teenagers got upset with the obscene lyrics they heard in a new rock 'n roll song on the radio, so they did something ...

WASHINGTON — It’s been called the ultimate party song, so it’s hard to imagine it was once the subject of an FBI investigation. Jack Ely, who died Tuesday at the age of 71, got “quite a kick” out of ...

If Jack Ely had stood closer to the microphone on the morning of April 6, 1963, when he entered a Portland studio to record a version of the song “Louie Louie,” then the history of popular music would ...