Not everyone can be Martin Scorsese, so for a select group of directors, quality won out over quantity for the movies they ...

Country music has seen plenty of famous artists with decades-long careers. But not all musical artists are long-standing; ...

I still can't wrap my head around the fact that these one-hit wonders from the 1980s didn't score bigger US hits.

If you were rocking big hair and leather jackets in the 1980s, you definitely still remember these three one-hit wonders from ...

They gave us one perfect song, dominated an entire season, and then vanished like they were never there at all.

You may not have thought about them in years, but these 20 one-hit wonders once ruled radios. The ’80s gave us more than just ...

Music has a way of sticking with you, especially those infectious tunes that pop up out of nowhere and make you hit repeat—over and over again. We all have those favorite one-hit wonders that take us ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Kai Slater’s parents gifted him a bass guitar for his 13th birthday, when he was beset by the godly fingers of ...

A one-hit wonder is a singer or group that has only experienced success with one hit song. Often, people will only remember the name of the song and not even the singer or group behind it. We've ...

On Talking Heads’ seminal hit “This Must Be the Place,” frontman David Byrne sang the immortal lines “home is where I want to be, but I guess I’m already there.” The lyric raises the question of what ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade's end, ...